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

EXPLAINED: German coup plot investigators focus on secluded hunting lodge | Rare Historical Photos

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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