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Attila Hildmann: TV chef turned COVID rabble-rouser

Hildmann first became a celebrity as a TV chef and author of best-selling cookbooks. Now he is one of Germany's most radical coronavirus deniers and conspiracy theorists. Fearing arrest, he is has left the country.

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