Schleswig-Holstein's public prosecutor's office has resumed investigations into allegations of sedition against the controversial microbiologist and bestselling author Sucharit Bhakdi.
The case was discontinued by the Kiel public prosecutor in November, said a spokeswoman on Thursday.
The subject of the proceedings are statements made in an interview that is freely accessible on the Internet.
The "Kieler Nachrichten" had previously reported.
Due to the later media coverage of the decision of the Kiel public prosecutor's office, Attorney General Wolfgang Zepter requested the preliminary investigation ex officio last week, the spokeswoman said. "The attorney general has resumed and taken over the investigative proceedings of the public prosecutor's office in Kiel, because the legal assessment of the incident is legally dubious according to local assessments and needs to be examined more closely."
The reason for this are statements by Bhakdi in an interview, which were also disseminated in the short message service Twitter. In it, he accused Israel of coercion to vaccinate, and he said that the current situation in the country was worse than in Germany at the time of National Socialism. “There is no people that learns better than they do,” he says of the Jews. "But they have now learned and implemented the evil, and that is why Israel is now living bright - living hell."
Bhakdi was Professor of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene in Mainz.
Several of his theses on the Covid pandemic were classified as misleading or even incorrect by experts - for example from his former institute at the University of Mainz.
His book “Corona False Alarm?” Was one of the best-selling non-fiction books of 2020. He is an icon of radical opponents of the government's Corona measures such as the lateral thinker movement.