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Memorial event for the doctor Lisa-Maria Kellermayr in Linz
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After the death of Austrian doctor Lisa-Maria Kellermayr, her body is now being autopsied.
The autopsy was carried out at the request of the relatives, said a judicial spokesman, according to the Austrian news agency APA.
Kellermayr had been threatened by opponents of the corona measures.
According to the news agency, the public prosecutor's office in Wels, Upper Austria, continues to assume that the doctor committed suicide.
There are no new clues or other findings.
Kellermayr was found dead in her practice in Upper Austria at the end of last week.
The doctor had been strongly committed to corona vaccinations and reported on Twitter, among other things, from months of intimidation to death threats - and finally closed her practice, citing this.
She justified the decision by not being able to offer her employees the prospect of working “under normal circumstances”.
In the case, the Munich public prosecutor's office is also investigating "against a male person on suspicion of insult and threat".
A spokeswoman for the authority did not want to give details.
The German government has meanwhile said it was "deeply dismayed" by Kellermayr's death.
A government spokesman said that Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and the federal government were particularly concerned to stand up against hatred together with the Austrian friends.
Threats, violence and hate speech are to be condemned in the strongest terms, especially when they are directed against medical staff and doctors.
The German security authorities cooperated with the Austrian authorities in the investigation.
"Digital hate" on the Internet too often goes unpunished, according to the spokesman.
»We will fight digital violence with all our constitutional means and the strictness of the law.«
bbr/AFP/dpa
