Hesse's Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) and the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution have warned against the spread of conspiracy ideologies in connection with state corona measures.
Questioning state action is completely legitimate and an expression of a free society, stressed Beuth on the occasion of the autumn talks of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (LfV) on Wednesday in Wiesbaden.
Wiesbaden - "Lateral thinkers and corona deniers also spread confused conspiracy ideologies and call for resistance to the current corona rules."
This sometimes aggressive agitation could act like a "radicalization accelerator", warned the minister.
"The cowardly murder of Idar-Oberstein has shown that the most serious crimes are possible from this heterogeneous scene." Anyone who hears hate speech or calls for violence should contact the security authorities immediately or contact the reporting office hessengegenhetze.de online.
In Idar-Oberstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, a young petrol station employee was shot in a dispute over wearing a corona mask.
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The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution warned that the program of the opponents of the state measures to contain the Covid-19 pandemic was also compatible with violence-oriented actors.
So-called conspiracy ideologies are basically suitable to be used to legitimize even the most serious violent crimes, said the President of the Hessian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Robert Schäfer.
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