The anti-tax scene in Germany is radicalizing. This Wednesday morning, the police carried out searches near Dresden, following death threats circulating on the antivax pages of Telegram targeting the minister-president of the region.
The justice had opened an investigation against the users of a Telegram group, following an investigation by the public television channel ZDF which had managed to infiltrate one of these groups, reports our correspondent in Berlin, Nathalie Versieux. A hundred members refusing the anti-Covid vaccine called for opposition, if necessary by arms, to health measures.
According to the police, the suspicions against the group were confirmed by the searches carried out on the morning of December 15 against five buildings in the region of Dresden and Heidenau. At the beginning of December, hooded anti-axles paraded by torchlight in front of the accommodation of the Minister of Health of Saxony, in a staging reminiscent of the Third Reich.
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Violent extremism
After these death threats, the new German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday promised to mobilize the means of the State in the face of a ” minority of extremists »Anti-vaccines. ” What also exists in Germany today is denial of reality, absurd conspiracy stories, deliberate disinformation and violent extremism. “, Lamented in front of the Bundestag Mr. Scholz, promising a response” using all the means of our democratic rule of law “.
In Germany, the radicalization of antivax, taken over by the extreme right, worries the security services. According to an SPD official, 15,000 to 20,000 opponents of health measures would be ready to resort to violence.
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(and with AFP)