Berlin: vandalism of museum artefacts 'linked to conspiracy theorists'

[Liberal In Texas]

2. The Pergamon Museum is supposedly the centre of the 'global satanism scene'

because it holds a reconstruction of the ancient Greek Pergamon Altar.

Attila Hildmann, a former vegan celebrity chef who has become one of Germany’s best-known proponents of the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory, posted messages on Telegram in August and September in which he suggested that the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, was using the altar for “human sacrifices”.

On Tuesday night Hildmann, who has over 100,000 followers on his public Telegram channel, posted a link to the Deutschlandfunk article with the words: “Fact! It is the throne of Baal (Satan).”

(As Paul Harvey used to say, "Now you know the rest of the story." )