- Sites claim that "a report from the [German] Interior Ministry challenges the official story of the coronavirus".
- This report was prepared by a departmental employee, who was suspended.
- The ministry explains that this is an isolated initiative.
Has the German government contradicted itself on its containment management? This is what several sites say, explaining that "an official German report denounces the Covid-19 pandemic as a false global alert". These sites reproduce the content of an American site, which itself takes elements from a German article.
The sites also claim that "the German federal government and the mainstream media have made efforts to limit the damage after the release of a report from the Interior Ministry which challenges the official account of the coronavirus".
In this 83-page report, the author denounces the new coronavirus as a "false global alert" and questions the merits of the containment measures.
These sites explain that the report "was written by a scientific group appointed by the Home Office and made up of external medical experts from several German universities".
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This report was written by Stephan Kohn. He then worked at the Ministry of the Interior, at the KM4 service, where he was responsible for the protection of critical infrastructure, details the Süddeutsche Zeitung . The document was published in Tichy Einblick , a magazine considered to be conservative. Stephan Kohn is not a stranger across the Rhine: a member of the Social Democratic Party, he had wanted, without success, to become party leader in Berlin, recalls Focus magazine.
The report was published on a letterhead from the Home Office, which created confusion. Stephan Kohn has been suspended from office, according to Der Spiegel . The Interior Ministry said on May 10 that Stephan Kohn "summarized and disseminated his private opinion" in this document. "This" analysis "conducted independently took place outside the factual competence of the author and the organizational unit" for which he worked, completes the ministry.
As for the "scientific group" which would have written the report, it is about ten doctors and scientists who published a press release on May 11 in support of the report. As Ellinika Hoaxes, a Greek fact-checking site points out, this group did not participate in the writing, but was asked by Stephan Kohn to provide elements for his document. The latter "contacted us through a specialized investigation, during the preparation of the risk analysis for the evaluation of collateral medical damage caused by the" corona measures "", explain the scientists in their press release.
Germany deplored 8,613 deaths from the Covid-19 on Friday, according to the Robert Koch Institute.
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