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		</div><p>A German court has convicted five people of plotting to overthrow the government in a far-right coup and kidnap the former health minister.</p>
<p>The Koblenz Higher Regional Court sentenced the four ringleaders to prison sentences between five years and nine months to eight years. A fifth defendant received a sentence of two years and 10 months, German news agency dpa reported.</p>
<p>The defendants, four men aged 46 to 58 and a 77-year-old woman, were accused of founding or being a member of a terrorist organisation called United Patriots and of preparing a highly treasonous enterprise against the German government.</p>
<p>Federal prosecutors said during the trial that the group was linked to the so-called Reich Citizens scene that rejects the legitimacy of Germany’s postwar constitution and has similarities to the Sovereign Citizens and QAnon movements in the US.</p>
<p>Prosecutors said they intended to create “conditions similar to civil war” by using explosives to cause nationwide blackouts and then by kidnapping former health minister Karl Lauterbach – a prominent advocate of strict coronavirus measures during the pandemic.</p>
<p>There were no indications the group, which called itself United Patriots, was close to launching a coup. But prosecutors said the group’s procurement of weapons and money showed they were “dangerous criminals who wanted to implement their plans”.</p>
<p>The case is separate from that of the more than two dozen people arrested in December 2022, also for planning to topple the government. Among the plotters was a member of the far-right Alternative for Germany party.</p>
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