Status: 05.08.2022 12:18 p.m
After the death of doctor Kellermayr, who was threatened by opponents of vaccination, the Austrian authorities are investigating again. In the search for authors of death threats in social media, they are working with the German authorities.
In the case of the dead doctor Lisa-Maria Kellermayr, the Austrian authorities have also resumed investigations. The “domestic jurisdiction” was restored after the suicide of the 36-year-old family doctor, said the chief public prosecutor, Christian Hubmer, confirming a report by the “Upper Austrian News”.
Looking for writers of threats
They are now working with the German prosecuting authorities to find the authors of death threats on social media. The Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Berlin Public Prosecutor’s Office are also investigating the case.
The doctor involved in the fight against the corona pandemic was exposed to the most massive death threats from the scene of the opponents of the measures. She was found dead in her practice last Friday. The preliminary autopsy results confirmed a suicide.
Police are defended
The case has triggered a political debate about how the Austrian police deal with threats against the doctor. The head of government of the federal state of Upper Austria, Thomas Stelzer (ÖVP), supported the security authorities. He sees it “very critically if attempts are now made to condemn the work of our security forces across the board, especially since they repeatedly come up against legal limits in their work,” he said.
Austria’s Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) also wrote to the country’s police officers against the impression that the police had done too little to protect the doctor. On the contrary, the authorities have done a lot, according to the letter quoted by the Austrian news agency APA. “A knee-jerk and general badmouthing of police officers and police work in our country is (…) completely inappropriate and inadmissible.”