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Cookbook author and corona denier Hildmann
Photo: imago images / Mike Schmidt
The corona agitator Attila Hildmann has apparently disappeared.
As SPIEGEL learned from investigative circles, the investigators have not known where the conspiracy ideologist is since the beginning of February.
On Friday, the district court of Berlin-Tiergarten issued an arrest warrant against Hildmann.
The investigators accuse him, among other things, of hatred, insults, threats and public incitement to criminal offenses.
The Berlin public prosecutor did not want to comment on the events.
The State Criminal Police Office is now looking for the 39-year-old.
It is unclear how the information about the arrest warrant was leaked.
On Saturday, Hildmann posted a message on his Telegram channel that there was "an arrest warrant against him for telling the truth."
He later published an audio message claiming that "Merkel's Stasi cops" had visited his mother and asked about him.
"The regime" is pursuing him like a terrorist, he complained: "I like to be number one corona denier."
Hildmann, who became known through his vegan cookbooks, had spread massive, often anti-Semitic agitation on his Telegram channel and during demonstrations in recent months.
About the former Green Party member Volker Beck, he said: "For Beck, as future Chancellor I would reintroduce the death penalty by kicking eggs in a public place."
House search in Brandenburg
The investigation against Hildmann initially ran at the Cottbus public prosecutor - the former cookbook author lives in Brandenburg.
In November, police raided his home there and confiscated laptops and cell phones, among other things.
This should probably also prevent him from continuing to hate speech over the Internet.
Shortly thereafter, the Berlin public prosecutor's office took over the investigation in order to bundle a large number of complaints that had been received against Hildmann.
The officials are now checking more than a thousand of his statements for possible criminal liability.
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