“Did we get rid of him now?”

Henry XIII wanted an extremist network. apparently help in power. In Frankfurt, the alleged ringleader lived and worked in solitary confinement.

It’s quiet on Rossertstrasse in Frankfurt’s elegant Westend district. The four hooded policemen standing in front of the gate at number 13 alone testify to the search of the top floor apartment, the apartment where Henry XIII resided. Prince Reuss is alive.

In a large-scale nationwide raid involving 3,000 police officers on Wednesday, emergency services unearthed a suspected extremist network in which the nobleman allegedly played a central role. The prince should be forcibly made head of state, it says. A coup was planned, including with the support of a former parachute commander and a former AfD member of the Bundestag.

A local resident slowly walks past the Prince of Terror’s house on the opposite side of the street. A few hours earlier, Reuss had been led out of the house by police officers and taken into custody. The older woman observed the scene: “I was wondering what was going on here. The police officers took some things away,” she says.

He can say nothing about Reuss herself: “I don’t know him.” At the time of the conversation with t-online, she was unaware of the nationwide raid. Her eyes widen a little when she learns that the alleged ringleader lives on the same street as her. She shakes her head. You comment on the coup plans and the ideology of the “Reichsbürger” with the words: “So many stupid things”. She then she asks, “Did we get rid of him now?”

According to residents of the house, the prince is said to have retired and lived inconspicuously. He apparently lived on the top floor of the old six-story building. From the outside, the apartment looks rather poor for a nobleman. His car is also not a luxury car by local standards: he drives an Audi S6.

His office is about 20 minutes from the Prince’s residence on the north end. He has so far worked as a real estate agent in Frankfurt. This road is also cordoned off by the police. Here too, in front of the entrance, there is a hooded policeman. Here, too, the Prince’s offices are searched at the same time.

In front of the house, an elderly man opens the wooden shutters in front of his window and looks out. He is wearing a red and black striped bathrobe and holds a cigarette in his left hand. He looks very surprised: “I’ve known him for a long time. We’re neighbors,” he says. “I actually always had good memories of him. He was always nice.”

Another man walks down the street. The 76-year-old introduces himself as Ingo Dormann. He couldn’t understand why people nowadays support the “citizens of the Reich” ideology. “It’s so outdated. We’re so enlightened and get information quickly.” He shakes his head. And he says goodbye. “My 99-year-old mother is waiting for me.”

Not much happens here anymore. The assembled press gradually withdraws. Shortly thereafter, the road was reopened to traffic. Shortly thereafter, the federal prosecutor announced that eight of the 25 suspects were in custody. The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), several state criminal investigation offices and the constitutional protection authorities had previously conducted extensive investigations. At the BKA, the procedure is called “shadow”.