Three-year sentence sought for German anti-lockdown leader

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2025-07-22

Stuttgart (dpa) - The founder of Germany's Querdenken (Lateral Thinking) movement, which protested against coronavirus lockdown measures, should receive a three-year prison sentence, the prosecution in his criminal fraud trial demanded on Tuesday. The defendant, Michael Ballweg, is attempting to portray himself as a martyr in the fight against an unjust state, the public prosecutor in the Stuttgart trial said on Tuesday. "In reality, an ordinar......

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