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Dresden / Halle (dpa) - The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (LfV) in Saxony has warned against new types of activities by the “Reich citizens”.
It is about unauthorized banking that is offered in a newly opened branch of the "GK Gemeinwohlkasse" in a bakery in the Dresden district of Laubegast, the office announced on Wednesday.
Activities of the so-called bank would be assigned to the extremist Reich citizen scene.
"Specifically, it is about the anti-constitutional movement" Kingdom of Germany ", which has not yet appeared in the Free State of Saxony," said LfV President Dirk-Martin Christian. The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bafin) has banned the self-proclaimed “King of this Kingdom”, Peter Fitzek, from doing such banking on several occasions. Nevertheless, the «GK Gemeinwohlkasse» pursues its anti-constitutional activities.
«Together with his supporters, Peter Fitzek denies the current legal and constitutional order of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Fitzek has often come into conflict with the state and has been convicted or imprisoned several times, ”the statement said.
The "Kingdom of Germany" and Fitzek are objects of observation for the protection of the constitution in Saxony-Anhalt.
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"As an early warning system, it is our duty to inform the citizens of these new kinds of extremist activities in the Free State of Saxony before they open so-called savings books or savings books at this Reichsbürgerbank," emphasized Christian. It cannot be ruled out that the commencement of operation of the cash register in the bakery branch is a deliberate calculation. Customers would buy bread and rolls from the “trusted baker next door” and be confronted with the ideology of the citizens of the Reich.
The protection of the constitution also assume that the “Reichsbürger” scene is taking advantage of the citizens' concerns about their savings in times of the corona pandemic. The LfV Sachsen is observing the obvious expansion of the "Kingdom of Germany" from Saxony-Anhalt to Saxony very closely and is sharing its findings in a regular, intensive exchange of information with other authorities, it concluded.
The LfV Sachsen counts around 1000 people among the so-called Reich citizens and self-administrators in Saxony.
Nationwide there should be 19,000.
According to the LfV, the proportion of right-wing extremists within this spectrum in Saxony is around 7 percent, 1.8 percent are holders of gun permits.
"Reich citizens" and self-administrators reject the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany and its institutions, including the courts.
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Information from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution on citizens of the Reich
Report from the Bild newspaper