(ANSA-AFP) - BERLIN, DEC 15 - Germany vowed Wednesday to
"defend itself" against radicalised anti-vaccination groups
after police launched raids in response to death threats against
a top politician backing decisive measures to fight the
pandemic. Police and special forces staged an operation in
Saxony after an anti-vaccine group targeted the region's state
premier, who has vocally supported national measures against the
unvaccinated in one of the areas of the country with the lowest
inoculation rates. Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who took office last
week, said Germany would "not allow a tiny minority of
uninhibited extremists to try to impose its will on the whole of
society". The security forces earlier launched the operation in
the eastern city of Dresden following threats from an
anti-vaccine group against state premier Michael Kretschmer.
"Statements from certain members of the group suggested they
might have real weapons and crossbows," police said, without
indicating if any arrests had been made. (ANSA-AFP).
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