Querdenker. New social movement under observation by German constitutional protection authorities in context of COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

The objective of this article is to bring a closer look into the processes of social radicalisation which are the concomitant of COVID-19 pandemics in Federal Republic of Germany. Furthermore, the author is trying to reconstruct the procedures of recon analytics taken by internal civil counterintelligence services in federal states of Germany. Nascent of grassroots movements united against COVID-19 restrictions, obligatory vaccination and general questioning of COVID-19 pandemic, has led to inscribe mentioned groups onto the official agenda of internal civil intelligence services ditto provide measures of operational reconnaissance related to these groups.