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On 7 December 2022, she was arrested during a large-scale raid against an alleged right-wing terrorist association with roots stemming from within the Reichsbürger movement.[6]
Biography
Malsack-Winkemann was born on 12 August 1964 in Darmstadt[7] and studied law[8] at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.[7] From 2003 to 2017 Malsack-Winkemann worked as a judge in the state of Berlin.[7] In 2013 she joined the newly founded AfD and became a member of the Bundestag in 2017.[9] In June 2021 she was nominated in 5th position on the AfD state candidate list for Bundestag, after she lost against Georg Pazderski - with the state party only winning 3 seats proportionally allocated seats, she lost re-election.[10]
She has been a member of the AfD's party Court of Arbitration since June 2022.[2]
In the morning of 7 December 2022, she was arrested for her alleged involvement with a group of right-wing extremists connected to the Reichsbürger movement, which had planned a coup against the German government.[11][12] She would have become the Minister of Justice of the government which would be formed if they had managed to realise their plan.[13]
At a trial that started on 21 May 2024, Malsack-Winkemann and eight other defendants were charged with terrorism and high treason.[14]
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