Real Madrid star, David Alaba’s father-in-law, Frank Heppner, was reportedly among the 25 people arrested in sweeping raids by German police on Wednesday December 9, which foiled an alleged plot to execute the Chancellor.
Frank Heppner’s daughter, Shalimar Heppner is married to Alaba and they share a son together.
Sixty-two years old Heppner, who is a celebrity chef, is believed to have been arrested in the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel, where he runs a restaurant.
Reports according to German outlet Bild, say investigators believe Heppner was a high-ranking member of the military wing of the Reichsbürger group – a band of plotters who want to overthrow the modern German democratic state and install a member of a German royal family as the new leader.
Germany’s attorney general has currently said that the Reichsbürger’s militarised unit was responsible for “the recruitment of new members, the procurement of weapons, establishing an IT and comms structure, and drawing up plans for future accommodation and catering.”
Austria’s Die Presse wrote that the celebrity chef would “take over the canteens of the new German Reich” and supply their troops.
In Wednesday’s raids, German police are said to have uncovered a list containing the names of 18 enemy politicians, that the ‘Citizens of the Reich’ (Reichsbürger) group allegedly wanted to execute or deport.
In further reports by New York Times, an anonymous source close to the investigation disclosed that Chancellor Scholz was on the list. The group planned to also execute him.
The source said plotters intended to disable the electricity network to aid in their attack on the German government, and had already purchased satellite phones that they would use to communicate off the grid.
The group then planned to storm the Capitol building in Berlin, arrest lawmakers, and execute the German Chancellor, according to the newspaper’s sources.
Credit: Bild//New York Times