German police say they have foiled a plot by anti-vaccination activists to murder the state premier of Saxony in eastern Germany as concerns grow over an increasingly violent pushback against COVID-19 vaccination plans.
The investigation targeted six suspects — five men and a womanThe alleged plot to kill Michael Kretschmer is the latest in a series of incidents that underscore the anger of some Germans over restrictions on the unvaccinated andMembers of a group called "Dresden Offlinevernetzung", or "Dresden offline network", had suggested in a chat on messaging platform Telegram that they might be in possession of firearms and crossbows, Saxony police said on Twitter.
He said the right to free speech should be respected but not used as a cover for violence, adding that the Saxony state government would mobilise additional staff to combat radicalism. Saxony has the second-highest seven-day incidence of COVID-19 among Germany's 16 federal states, at 824 per 100,000 people compared with a national incidence of 353.
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