Alerts | Verbal attack or intimidation by public (non online)

Journalist threatened to be hanged during COVID-19 protest in Germany

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The press and particularly mainstream media were repeatedly attacked by “Querdenker” protestors during an anti-mask and anti-COVID-19 measures demonstration in Berlin. One Tagesspiegel reporter states that he was threatened by a protestor who said that the journalist will be hanging from a tree as will every other “system-journalist”, “after the overthrow”.

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