FILE PHOTO: A person crosses an empty road during a night-time curfew, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Cologne, Germany, April 25, 2021. REUTERS/Thilo Schmuelgen
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's domestic spy agency is monitoring individuals who have joined anti-lockdown protests to decide if their rejection of government curbs amounts to subversion and incitement to violence.
The surveillance includes some members of the "Querdenker" or "Lateral Thinkers" movement, which has been organising increasingly violent protests against coronavirus lockdowns and includes conspiracy theorists and suspected far-right extremists, a spokeswoman for the BfV spy agency said.
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