- Ex-Federal Parliamentary Members are expected to make further statements
As the first defendant, former Member of Parliament Birgit Malsack-Winkemann has extensively addressed the charges against her in the Frankfurt trial involving Heinrich XIII, Prince Reuss. She is expected to continue her statements today (at 9:30 AM).
A native of Darmstadt, Malsack-Winkemann served in the Bundestag for the AfD from 2017 to 2021 and worked as a judge in Berlin for many years.
On Tuesday, Malsack-Winkemann denied the charges in court, describing the trial as an inflated story concocted by the General Prosecutor's Office (GBA), in which predominantly elderly people are being held in detention without cause. "This is unprecedented," she said. She suggested that the charges could only have been fabricated by the GBA's imagination.
According to the indictment, Malsack-Winkemann is accused of infiltrating other defendants into the Bundestag and surveying the building with them. The group allegedly planned an armed raid on the Bundestag to capture members and overthrow the system.
In Frankfurt, nine defendants are accused of being members of a terrorist organization or supporting one. Until the verdict, the defendants are presumed innocent.
In relation to the ongoing trial, the hearing will take place before the [The Court of First Instance]. Despite her denials, Birgit Malsack-Winkemann faces charges of infiltrating other defendants into the Bundestag and surveying the building with them, as stated in the indictment.
