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Cabaret artist Lisa Fitz: "I regret that, but that was it"
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After her sharply criticized false statements about vaccination deaths in the SWR comedy program “Spätschicht”, the cabaret artist Lisa Fitz rejected the accusation that she was suspecting conspiracies related to the corona pandemic.
"I am not a vaccination opponent and not a corona denier," she wrote in a Facebook post.
"I am also not a conspiracy theorist." She regrets that she spoke of 5,000 corona vaccine deaths across the EU in her controversial appearance.
However, she also used her old arguments in a Facebook post.
The SWR did not comment on the post
According to her own statements, Fitz had relied on a motion for a resolution that was tabled in the European Parliament in her testimony about the vaccinated deaths.
However, she failed to explicitly name the number as suspected vaccine deaths, writes Fitz.
"I regret that, but that was it."
The application in question was submitted by the far-right EU parliamentarian Virginie Joron from France.
Joron, in turn, relies on a website on which private individuals report alleged vaccination results without a scientific check being carried out, as a fact check by the German press agency dpa shows in mid-November.
After the broadcast and criticism of the station, Südwestrundfunk decided to remove the comedy or satirical program from the ARD media library and also to remove it from all SWR platforms and channels because it was a false factual claim by Fitz.
The station did not comment on the cabaret artist's Facebook post on Thursday.
In response to a dpa request, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in Amsterdam pointed out that the reported deaths were only suspected cases.
It had not been established that there was a causal relationship with the vaccination.
An estimated 600 million vaccine doses have now been administered in the EU.
With so many people vaccinated, it is becoming more and more likely that people who are dying will also have been vaccinated.
eth / dpa