It's going to be 'hot potato' if it continues!
In 2022, largely ignored by the mainstream, cases having touched on the Covid-19 scandal in different aspects.
Source: Reuters/Guardian (excerpts) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... h-minister
75-year-old man arrested for plotting kidnapping of German health minister
German police have arrested four people who were planning to " overthrow the German democratic system”.
The suspects also intended to destroy electricity supply facilities in order to cause a nationwide blackout.
The public prosecutor's office in Koblenz confirmed information from the ARD radio and television station via a spokesperson.
«The two main suspects have agreed with others to attack the federal Minister of Health “, said the representative of the prosecutor….
The group, which used the Vereinte Patrioten (United Patriots) chat channel, “intended to cause conditions approaching civil war and ultimately to overthrow the democratic system in Germany,” prosecutors said in a statement. anterior.
Mr Lauterbach said the foiled police plan shows there are "forces at play" that are using the protests to destabilize the country's state and democratic system, Reuters reports.
« They represent a small minority in our society, but they are very dangerous.x,” the German health minister said.
Authorities raided 20 properties in several German states and seized weapons, including rifles, ammunition and a Kalashnikov machine gun, as well as cash in euros and other currencies, gold bars and coins. silver coins.
Prosecutors said the group intended to kidnap other high-profile figures, but did not specify their identities, Agerpres reports. Investigators have asked a court to issue arrest warrants for the four detained suspects. There is another suspect in this case, who has not yet been found.
TF1 [excerpts] https://www.tf1info.fr/justice-faits-di ... 33440.html
Four suspects arrested for a "planned kidnapping" of the Belgian Minister of Justice
It is a scenario worthy of the films of organized crime which was being prepared in Belgium. In the middle of a municipal ball on Saturday evening in Kortrijk, in Flanders, the mayor of the city, who is also Minister of Justice, indicated that he had been targeted by a "kidnapping project" linked to his fight against "organized crime". However, he did not cancel the festivities so as not to "give reason to the drug mafia".
Weapon found near minister's home
As part of the investigation into this kidnapping project, the Belgian federal prosecutor's office announced on Saturday that the minister had been placed under reinforced police surveillance. Three suspects were also arrested in the Netherlands, men aged 20, 29 and 48, of Dutch nationality. A fourth was arrested the next day in the same country, according to judicial sources. Their transfer to Belgium has been requested.
According to the same judicial source, an automatic weapon was also discovered in a vehicle spotted near the minister's home in Kortrijk. The Flemish daily Het Laatste Nieuws had reported that firearms, including Kalashnikovs and bottles filled with gasoline, had been found in the suspect vehicle, registered in the Netherlands.
Source: “Le Temps” https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/fond-theo ... -fusillade
ZURICH: Kidnapping turns into shooting
A 38-year-old German and a 28-year-old Swiss woman died in a shooting. The man had kidnapped a Zurich professor.
Two people died during a police operation in a Zurich municipality on Wednesday evening. It all started with a kidnapping: that of “a nationally known person”, specifies the Tages-Anzeiger. Following a superprovisional judicial decision and in order to guarantee the protection of the victim, the German-speaking daily does not have the right to disclose his identity.
We do know, however, that he is a professor from the University of Zurich who has been mandated by the Confederation to chair an independent commission in connection with Covid-19. On March 31, this man was kidnapped in the canton of Zurich by a 38-year-old German, armed and “active in conspiracy and antivax circles”, underlines heidi.news.
