Germany's Federal Public Prosecutor's Office charged five suspected members of a terrorist group with plotting an elaborate coup against the German government, the office announced earlier this week.

Authorities believe that the 75-year-old retired schoolteacher — identified as "Elisabeth R.," also known in the German press as "terror granny" — is the leader of what German law enforcement is calling a domestic-terrorist group.

German authorities accused "Elisabeth R.," along with four men, of formulating a "highly treasonable" violent plan to trigger "civil war-like conditions" across Germany to topple the federal government, according to the statement prosecutors made.

Authorities said the group began devising their three-step plan of action to take over the state in January of last year.

The plan included destroying the power supply to set off countrywide blackouts and kidnapping Karl Lauterbach, Germany's health minister — an unpopular figure among anti-vaxxers in the country 

Germany's Federal Public Prosecutor's Office charged five suspected members of a terrorist group with plotting an elaborate coup against the German government, the office announced earlier this week.

Authorities believe that the 75-year-old retired schoolteacher — identified as "Elisabeth R.," also known in the German press as "terror granny" — is the leader of what German law enforcement is calling a domestic-terrorist group.

German authorities accused "Elisabeth R.," along with four men, of formulating a "highly treasonable" violent plan to trigger "civil war-like conditions" across Germany to topple the federal government, according to the statement prosecutors made.

Authorities said the group began devising their three-step plan of action to take over the state in January of last year.

The plan included destroying the power supply to set off countrywide blackouts and kidnapping Karl Lauterbach, Germany's health minister — an unpopular figure among anti-vaxxers in the country