(21 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Frankfurt – 21 May 2024
1. Wide of defence lawyers at podium
2. Close of camera
3. SOUNDBITE (German) Hans-Otto Sieg, defence lawyer for Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss:
"He is portrayed here as the great monster, the leader of the whole story. But that’s not true at all. It’s being hyped up by the media and that’s simply wrong. But we’ll straighten that out."
4. SOUNDBITE (German) Roman von Alvensleben, defence lawyer for Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss: ++CONTINUES ON FROM PREVIOUS SHOT++
"So he’s not a leader, he’s not a ringleader and he’s not a member of a terrorist organisation."
5. Various of media and court tent
STORYLINE:
The alleged leaders of a suspected far-right plot to topple the German government are among nine suspects who went on trial Tuesday, opening the most prominent proceedings in a case that shocked the country in late 2022.
The defendants faced judges on Tuesday at a special temporary courthouse built to accommodate the large number of defendants, lawyers and media dealing with the case.
About 260 witnesses are expected at a trial that the Frankfurt state court expects to extend well into 2025 — one of three trials that in total involve more than two dozen suspects.
The defendants include the highest-profile suspects in the alleged plot, among them Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss, whom the group allegedly planned to install as Germany’s provisional new leader; Birgit Malsack-Winkemann, a judge and former lawmaker with the far-right Alternative for Germany party; and former German military officers.
Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss’s lawyers said that the Prince "is portrayed here as the great monster, the leader of the whole story. But that’s not true at all. It’s being hyped up by the media and that’s simply wrong. But we’ll straighten that out."
"So he’s not a leader, he’s not a ringleader and he’s not a member of a terrorist organisation," the lawyers told reporters in Frankfurt.
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