German health minister says plot to kidnap him shows COVID protests have become an attempt to “destabilize the state”

Germany’s health minister says the now-foiled plot to kidnap him is proof that COVID-related “protests have not only become more radical,” but that there is “an attempt to destabilize the state.” Authorities have arrested four people connected to the alleged plot, which also allegedly sought to cause a nationwide blackout and produce “conditions similar to civil war.”