Germany’s Billionaire ‘Sausage King’ Faces Coronavirus Reckoning

Outbreak at meatpacking plant adds to global industry’s woes
Some 640,000 people locked down again amid calls for change

Clemens Toennies heads to speak with the press outside the slaugherhouse, on June 20.Photographer: David Inderlied/picture alliance via Getty Images

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By Stefan Nicola and Megan Durisin Albery

June 27, 2020 at 3:00 AM UTC

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Clemens Toennies, known to Germans as a brash billionaire, is turning into a public villain after one of his meat-processing plants triggered the country’s biggest single coronavirus outbreak.