The German internal security service (BfV) warns that a far-right group is trying to buy the village of Lychen-Rutenberg in the northeast of the country. According to the security service, the group wants to use the village as the beginning of its own “kingdom of Germany”.
The group belongs to the Reichsbürger movement. Dozens of members of that organization were killed in December arrestedbecause they wanted to storm the German parliament and overthrow the government. Five members of the movement were killed this week sued for high treason because they wanted to kidnap the German health minister Karl Lauterbach in October.
In the village of Lychen, members of the Reichsbürger movement try to buy up all the houses and all the land. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the state of Brandenburg, where Lychen is located, says Clues that the group wants to establish its own “kingdom”.
“We take into account the possibility that the organization wants to establish a ‘kingdom of Germany’ in Lychen-Rutenberg. It wants to create its own state with its own government,” says a spokesman for the ministry. Among other things, the department monitors compliance with the constitution by residents of Germany.
The regional ministry wants to prevent the extreme right-wing movement from getting control of the entire village by buying buildings itself. The authorities have informed the residents of the village about the plan.
