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HISTORICAL FACTS: Five jailed for far right plot to overthrow german government - The Untold Story

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Vans transporting the defendants arrive at the higher regional court in Koblenz. Photograph: Sebastian Gollnow/AP

A German court has jailed five members of an extremist group linked to the Reichsbürger (Reich Citizens) movement for plotting a coup and to kidnap the health minister.

The defendants, four men, aged 46 to 58, and a 77-year-old woman, who belonged to the self-styled “United Patriots” group, were sentenced to between five years and nine months and eight years’ jail by the Koblenz higher regional court on Thursday.

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