Four stations, one data point that remains unanchored between them.
26 August 2021 — UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer sends an official communication, file reference AL DEU 6/2021, to the German Federal Government. Trigger: numerous reports and video recordings of disproportionate police force against protesters at anti-Covid demonstrations in Berlin, particularly on August 1, 2021.1
What Actually Happened on April 22, 2026 # On Wednesday, April 22, 2026, an unusually dense sequence of security- and surveillance-policy events moved in parallel through Germany and Brussels:
Methodological note. This text is based on primary Bundestag documents (Drucksachen), the foundations’ own websites, Correctiv’s governance page, and the program of the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) 2023 Science Conference. Where amounts or positions are only secondary-sourced, this is marked. The point is not to deny Correctiv its legitimacy — it is to show what Correctiv systematically does not show when presenting itself as an “independent” investigative platform.
