Austrian citizen Monica Unger, who was about to stage a military coup in the country and asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to send troops, was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Her associates were punished more gently, according to The Local.
Unger, who had declared herself president of an underground organization called the Confederation of Austria, was found guilty of inciting mutiny and attempting to undermine the government. Her assistant, a 71-year-old retired police officer, was imprisoned for 10 years, and several more people received sentences.
The fact that the creators of the “Confederation” were detained became known in October 2018. According to media reports, the group had up to 2.7 thousand members and positioned itself as a full-fledged state, alternative to the existing one in the country. The members of the group were saving money and hoping to arrange a military coup in the country, considering options for foreign intervention: for this purpose, Unger wrote a letter to Putin.
Unger criticized the Austrian system for injustice: in her opinion, modern Austria is an unfree “society of capital”, suppressing the individual. The woman was previously a member of the nationalist Austrian Freedom Party, one of the parties of the ruling coalition in parliament. It is noted that among the members of the group there were many ultra-right and extremists of a different kind.
