• Terrorism Olaf Scholz vows to fight anti-vaccine "extremist minority"

German police carried out searches and a number of weapons were seized during an operation in Saxony on Wednesday in response to

death threats from anti-vaccine groups

against a regional leader who supports measures against the pandemic.

The new German chancellor, the Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, said his country will conduct a relentless struggle against

a "minority of extremists" anti -

vaccine

.

The police of Saxony, a federated state in the east of the country, supported by the special intervention forces, carried out an operation on Wednesday in Dresden and Heidenau after death threats were launched, especially against the regional minister-president, Michael Kretschmer.

In Germany there has been a

strong opposition movement to sanitary restrictions

since the beginning of the pandemic.

It is particularly present in Saxony, 'land' that belonged to the former GDR, one of the regions most affected by the current wave of COVID-19 infections and which has a vaccination rate lower than the national average.

The police operation followed the infiltration by journalists of the public channel ZDF in

an anti-vaccine group of the Telegram messaging service

.

It targets five men and one woman "

suspected of preparing an act of serious violence

" and "assassination plans" against Michael Kretschmer (CDU, Conservative) and other regional officials, according to a police statement.

Weapons and crossbows were seized, although police did not specify whether any arrests were made.

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