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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Max Schwarz, Timm Reichert and Tom Sims

German coup plot investigators focus on secluded hunting lodge

The Waidmannsheil hunting lodge is seen as police secure the area around it, after suspected members and supporters of a far-right group were detained during raids across Germany, in Saaldorf, Bad Lobenstein, Germany December 8, 2022. REUTERS/Matthias Rietschel

German investigators in the small eastern town of Bad Lobenstein on Thursday searched a secluded 19th century hunting lodge owned by a local aristocrat who is at the centre of a coup plot that has shocked Germany and left residents bewildered.

Police surrounded the Waidmannsheil hunting lodge, which belongs to Heinrich XIII Prinz Reuss, and sits just outside the town in a wooded area, amid suspicions that it served as a depot for weapons and meeting point in the planned coup.

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