Overview
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a video saying he sent a protest letter to Health Minister Nina Warken and claimed more than 1,000 German doctors and thousands of patients are being prosecuted over mask and vaccine exemptions.
- Warken called the assertions factually false and emphasized that doctors were never obliged to administer Covid-19 vaccinations.
- German officials said criminal cases tied to the pandemic targeted offenses such as forged vaccination records and fake mask attestations, not clinical decisions.
- News reports noted Kennedy did not provide sources for the scale of prosecutions he alleged, including in the video and accompanying X post where he misspelled Warken’s name.
- Former minister Karl Lauterbach and other politicians criticized Kennedy’s intervention and underscored the independence of German courts handling such cases.