High-ranking politicians, several media outlets, police authorities and other public institutions have received threatening letters referring to the compulsory vaccination. The letters announce “bloody resistance” to the planned measure. The ARD reported on Tuesday.
One of the recipients was therefore Berlin’s Governing Mayor Michael Müller (SPD). A total of at least twelve of these letters had been sent, it said. Members of the Bundestag were also among the addressees.
According to the report, all threatening letters contained a piece of meat wrapped in aluminum foil. “The meat is infected with radiating Covid-19 viruses and Zyklon B,” the letter said. “The resistance to the vaccination and the measures will be bloody and unsavory.”
“We can confirm these facts,” said a spokeswoman for the Berlin police on Wednesday morning. “We are currently aware of more than a dozen of these broadcasts nationwide.” However, she did not disclose who the recipients were. The investigations in Berlin were taken over by the State Police Department of the State Criminal Police Office. The spokeswoman said that it was being investigated for disrupting the public peace.
The letter seems somewhat strange: Coronaviruses do not radiate – and the mention of Zyklon B refers to the Holocaust. It is an insecticide based on hydrogen cyanide, which is fatal if humans inhale it. The National Socialists had used Zyklon B in Auschwitz and other concentration camps to murder Jews and other population groups.
No references to hazardous substances in threatening letters
Forensic investigations of the threatening letters and the pieces of meat would not have given any indications of hazardous substances, it said in the ARD report. The police spokeswoman confirmed this on Wednesday morning. The report did not tell when the letters were sent or when they were received by their recipients. There are currently no references to the originator of the threatening letters.
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There has recently been a clear radicalization among “lateral thinkers”. This has been observed “for a long time,” said Berlin’s Senator for the Interior, Andreas Geisel (SPD), when he was approached about the threats in the RBB’s “Abendschau” on Tuesday evening – without actually assigning the letters to the scene. “Democratic criticism of Corona measures must be possible, but where it turns into hatred and agitation, the state must also set limits.”
According to the assessment of the security authorities, right-wing extremists and Reich citizens are increasingly trying to dominate the scene, which has been very heterogeneous for a long time, especially in the east of the country. The debate about compulsory vaccination and recently tightened corona measures have given them new impetus.
Beatings and fatal shots: radicalization among “lateral thinkers”
Again and again there are border crossings and acts of violence. At the beginning of December, demonstrators with torches pulled in front of the home of the local Health Minister Petra Köpping (SPD) in Saxony. In Idar-Oberstein, a cashier was shot dead in a gas station in a dispute over the mask requirement, in Berlin a passenger in a tram was beaten up for the same reason.
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In Königs Wusterhausen, a father first shot his family and then himself – and documented in a suicide note that he was driven by the irrational fear of being arrested because of a forged vaccination certificate. The man had contact with the “lateral thinker” scene.
It was initially unclear whether there were also “lateral thinkers” behind the threatening letters against Michael Müller and other politicians. A connection is obvious, but there are always cases in which people send threatening letters or false letters of confession for completely different reasons, for example out of a desire for recognition. This happens precisely when a conflict receives a great deal of public attention. Criminalists then speak of “free riders”. (with dpa)