There has been no shortage of big news stories coming out of Europe this year, but one of the least expected came last week when, in Germany, 25 conspirators were arrested and accused of plotting to overthrow the government. The eclectic grouping, known as the Reichsbürger plotters, espoused a far-right ideology but hailed largely from the centre of respectable German society, headed up by an elderly minor aristocrat and including in their ranks family doctors, judges, a celebrity chef and an opera singer.
For the Guardian Weekly’s big story this week, Berlin bureau chief Philip Oltermann takes a look what it all means for Germany, while columnist Jonathan Freedland sees more evidence that the greatest terror threat facing the world no longer comes from radical Islam, but the white far-right.
