Germany prohibits extremist movement and arrests the self -proclaimed “king” Peter

The arrested self -proclaimed “King” of Germany and three of his older “subjects” and their group is prohibited for trying to overthrow the state.

59 -year -old Peter Fitzec was one of the arrested in the morning raids in the seven states on Tuesday, which involved about 800 security officers.

The government banned its group, Reichbighur, or “Reich citizens” seeking to create Konigrich -Dounland or “German Kingdom”.

Alexander Dobrendt, the German Interior Minister, accused the group of trying to “undermine the rule of law”, creating an alternative state and spreading “anti -Semitic stories about conspiracy to support their alleged demand for power.”

His ministry announced the abolition of the group and accused her of financing through “economic criminal structures”.

The fitzeck, a former boss instructor and karate, calls himself a “king” and identified himself as “Peter the first” in the previous court case.

He himself was crowned in 2012, dressing in skiing gowns and smashing a medieval sword. Since then, it has been buying land and property across Germany.

Reichsburgers have their own currency, flags and personal certificates, and want to create separate banking and medical systems.

Fitzek claims to have thousands of followers – or “subjects”.

In an interview with the BBC in 2022, he denied the existence of violent intentions, but also called the German state “devastating and sick”.

“I’m not interested in being part of this fascist and satanic system,” he said Jenny Hill BBC when she visited his “kingdom” in East Germany.

Fitezec has repeatedly encountered the authorities and refused to obey German laws, often in what appears to be in advertising order.

Previously, he went to jail at the wheel without a license, after the decision to transfer his back in the symbolic deviation of the law. At the end of one trial session, the fitsek was spotted in the car in front of the playground and traveled.

Fitzek is One of about 25,000 reichsbürger in Germany. Figures have been growing over the past few years.

Many right -wing extremists who disassemble racist and anti -Semitic conspiracy theories. They refuse to recognize the powers of the security forces and have many unlawful weapons, which led to shootings with the police. Officials say about 2500 are potentially rigid and 1350 are classified as right extremists.

In 2022, dozens of people were arrested, many of them Reichbighters, for what he intended to turn to the Berlin government in Berlin. They were accused of planning a brutal coup, which included the abduction of the Minister of Health to create a “civil war” to bring down German democracy.

In the past, Reichsbighters often deviated as eccentric handles from their strange ideas.

But since the last decade in Germany in Germany, officials have now considered the reporting force, officials see them as a serious threat.

The Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Carlsruhe stated that Fitzek had been arrested with three other suspects in the group that she had classified as a criminal organization.

According to the “so -called supreme sovereign” office, Fitezec had a “force that made decisions” in all key spheres “.

“The Kingdom of Germany” considers itself a sovereign state in the sense of international law and seeks to expand its stated “national territory” to the borders of the German Empire in 1871, “the statement added.