Lateral thinkers planned kidnapping: Lauterbach: “My children are afraid for me”

Lateral thinkers planned kidnapping
Lauterbach: “My children are afraid for me”

Corona deniers have been sending him threats “in all ways” since the beginning of the pandemic, says Federal Health Minister Lauterbach. He’s already on several death lists. The hatred that he faces burdens his private life – he no longer leaves the house without bodyguards.

Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is concerned about his five children in view of the threats against him. “I’m not an anxious person myself. But I’m very concerned about my children. And of course it hurts that my children are afraid for me,” said Lauterbach of “Bild am Sonntag”. A group of lateral thinkers broken up by the police had apparently planned his kidnapping.

Lauterbach has four adult children and a teenage daughter. “Unfortunately, I feel the threat every day,” he said. He is often threatened with violence and is on various death lists. The perpetrators sprayed his homes in Cologne and Berlin and damaged his private car.

Lauterbach tries to deal with the situation “as professionally as possible”: “I report every threat of violence or death. I get them in all ways, by e-mail, by post, threats are put in my mailbox.” However, he does not read the hate mail himself, but hands over the letters to employees who check them. He then just signs the ads. “The hate criminals want to scare me, intimidate me. I won’t allow that,” said Lauterbach.

98 investigations in Cologne alone

“In Cologne alone, there are currently 98 initiated and ongoing investigations, and the identity of the perpetrators was determined in 65 cases,” Lauterbach reported. “I do it so consistently because an opponent of vaccination who threatens me with violence will probably also threaten his mayor or city council. A successful complaint from me can also protect others.”

According to Lauterbach, without personal protection, he can neither go for a walk nor go out to eat: “I would endanger myself, but also others with whom I go to eat or who happen to be near me.”

According to the State Criminal Police Office in Mainz and the Attorney General’s Office in Koblenz, right-wing extremists from the lateral thinker scene have planned to kidnap Lauterbach and overthrow the democratic system in Germany through attacks.

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