The documents had been floating around on messaging channels popular with gamers for several weeks, or even months, before making it to Telegram and catching the attention of the media.
During a weekend interview, Thomas Haldenwang, the president of Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, called anti-lockdown protesters, vaccine skeptics, and so-called ‘lateral thinkers,’ “enemies of the state” who “fundamentally reject the democratic state.”
