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This is fake. https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/14915/4571083

Google translate:

"There are currently reports in public, especially on the Internet, that the accused are forced to be placed in a psychiatric clinic. To this end, the public prosecutor's office in Heidelberg and the police headquarters in Mannheim state that neither the placement of the accused in a psychiatric clinic nor any other coercive measure was ordered as part of the criminal investigation against the accused."

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It's machine translation, but that is -not- saying she was not "[placed] in a psychiatric clinic nor any other coercive measure was ordered". It is simply asserting that these actions, which did take place, were "[not] ordered as part of the criminal investigation".

Did I read it wrong?

> as part of the criminal investigation

Here's the statement about taking her into the clinic: https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/14915/4571057

Please be more careful with the label fake.

> Please be more careful with the label fake.

What you posted does not contradict that conclusion. Police thought medical advice was in order since she was acting paranoid, she attacked the officers. Hardly the dream conspiracy theory she makes it out to be. German police does not determine if somebody belongs in a psychiatric clinic, they merely presented her in front of somebody to assess if she is a harm to herself or others in that case.

I (on second read probably mis-)read the post as denying she was taken into custody at all. It's more helpful to spend a sentence clarifying what the difference is that's pointed out than saying "fake".

Okay that's true, no idea why there's even two press releases on this. Might be some odd privacy protection technicality / maybe it's technically two different calls / cases or something. Apologies, I'm just a bit annoyed that this conspiracy theory crap gets airtime at the moment.

Your quote does not dispute her being placed in a psychiatric institution, it only says that it wasn't part of the investigation - which isn't saying much; institutionalizing people is typically not part of a criminal investigation.

Saxony wants to block quarantine refusers in psychiatric hospitals

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article207198029/Cor...

Conspiracy or Normal Intervention by the Aargau Authorities?

https://www.srf.ch/news/regional/aargau-solothurn/festnahme-...

Ah, good old info wars.