CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: "The primary planning tool was online, chat fora. There were a couple of physical meetings where they tried to recruit members of the police and military forces, but all of the primary planning was done online. This means messenger services and social media, which really don't have the controls in place to hinder or in any way bother people planning these things. This is not the very first time that something similar like this has been discovered in Germany..."

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CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: "This was one of the, if not the, largest counterterrorism operation on German soil since 1945. 3,000 police officers in 130 different locations, arresting 25 individuals, 27 individuals under further investigation on top of that. It was surprising as far as the scope and the scale is concerned. But, unfortunately, this is not the only violent cell that has been discovered from the broader violent right-wing extremist spectrum in Germany over the last couple of years. Since 2019, the Federal Ministry of the Interior has consistently judged that violent right-wing extremism is the largest domestic threat against security and this morning really brought home that point again." 

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler joined BBC Scotland's The Nine to discuss the Reichsbürger movement, amid news that German authorities arrested 25 individuals suspected of plotting to overthrow Germany's government. The suspects were alleged Reichsbürger members, with elements of QAnon, as well as a former MP for far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD).  

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed for the top news story on BBC World Service's Newshour: "German authorities say they were preparing to overthrow the government. The plotters include members of the so-called 'Reichsburger' movement, which rejects the legitimacy of the modern German state, and conspiracy theorists who subscribe to Q'Anon ideology."

"More than two dozen people were arrested in a massive raid that spanned 130 locations across Germany. Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, Sr. Director of the Counter Extremism Project explains what happened."

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: "...in 2020, my organization, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), conducted research into MB networks in a range of countries in Central and Eastern Europe (see here, here, and here). This research demonstrated that while these networks have been growing since the end of the Cold War, their size, political influence in the respective countries, as well as their influence within the wider community, has been reduced in the past few years, and that other, less structured extremist Islamist networks have been taking their place."