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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Heinrich the 13th Prince Royce, and a successor

of an Asian German dynasty that can be traced back to around 900 AD.

That is Heinrich the 13th. Hadn't heard of him much before? Well, no, neither

at anyone else, really. He's a minor German aristocrat who now stands accused of trying to

organise a coup to overthrow the German state. And not just some minor coup attempt involving

a few cranks. The police was so alarmed about this that

3,000 of them took part in raids across 11 states, 131 raids, to be precise, 25 people

arrested. And the raids took place at the homes of former politicians, judges, it took place at a military barracks.

This looked like it was pretty serious.

These plotters include members of an extremist movement called the Rice Burger.

That translates literally as sovereign citizens.

And that's because they don't really agree with the carve-up of modern-day Germany.

They want to go back to former grander times, pre-World War I, pre-Versai Treaty,

when they think that Germany had more authority.

So there is a kind of grievance nostalgia in this, but there is also a very

modern element which you might recognise, which sounds uncomfortably familiar, elements of

QAnon, elements of the very protests that brought the attack on the capital. And we're hearing the

same kind of words, hatred of the mainstream media, hatred of the political elites, demonising of those in power, even conspiracies around paedophilia.

So today on The Newsagents, we're asking if this is a global QAnon.

Welcome to the Newsagents.

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