• A false information on social networks claims that the German Ministry of Justice would have threatened parliamentarians who voted for compulsory vaccination with prosecution for attempted murder.

    It was picked up by dozens of accounts on Twitter.

  • This letter was published on the Net by an association of “prosecutors and judges” described as “anti-vax” for the attention of the Bundestag.

  • If the letter warns about the legal risks of compulsory vaccination, it does not mention prosecution for attempted murder.

Vaccination against Covid-19 is the subject of debate far beyond our borders.

On April 7, German deputies were called upon to vote on the compulsory vaccination bill for those over 60 promised by Olaf Scholz, the new chancellor.

The proposal, obtaining only 296 votes in favor and 378 votes against, was finally rejected.

For the past few days, however, on French social networks, a rumor has been spreading about this vote: the German Ministry of Justice intervened before the vote by sending a letter to the members of the Bundestag threatening prosecution for “attempted murder” parliamentarians who would vote for compulsory vaccination.

A proof of the harmfulness of vaccines in the eyes of the most reluctant.

This allegation, relayed by sites such as planetes360.fr or reseauinternational.net, has been taken up by hundreds of Twitter users and dozens of blogs.

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, the Ministry of Justice denies sending such a letter.

“It is not the role of the federal Department of Justice to launch this type of lawsuit.

The ministry does not intervene in the debates and votes in Parliament.

The answer is the same on the side of the Bundestag, the German parliament: the various parliamentary groups, contacted by telephone, claim not to know of the existence of this letter.

However, the German Embassy in France warns of the existence of an open letter addressed to the Bundestag published by "an anti-vax association, which calls itself a "network of magistrates"".

The missive calls on the deputies to “maturely think about” their vote, adding that legally, a vaccination obligation would lead the State to “kill people”, without however mentioning legal proceedings for attempted murder.

A letter from which the Ministry of Justice, however, “immediately distanced itself” when it appeared on social networks.

The document, published on April 2 and still accessible online, is the subject of the KRiStA association, which presents itself as "a network of prosecutors and judges, observers of political actions, legislators and regulators in the face of the crisis. of the coronavirus, and who is worried about the rule of law".

Qualified as anti-vax by the embassy, ​​it is also described, in an article in the German investigative magazine

Der Spiegel

, as a structure skeptical of the legal measures taken in the context of the health crisis.

The magazine classifies the association among the organizations “denying the coronavirus”.

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