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"Mass murderer": Christian Drosten badly insulted during camping vacation

2022-06-30T13:15:31.321Z


"Mass murderer": Christian Drosten badly insulted during camping vacation Created: 06/30/2022, 15:10 By: Fabian Raddatz On vacation in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, three permanent campers insulted the prominent virologist Christian Drosten. The police had to come too. Neubrandenburg – Germany's probably most famous virologist had to endure hate triads during his vacation. This emerges from a


"Mass murderer": Christian Drosten badly insulted during camping vacation

Created: 06/30/2022, 15:10

By: Fabian Raddatz

On vacation in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, three permanent campers insulted the prominent virologist Christian Drosten.

The police had to come too.

Neubrandenburg – Germany's probably most famous virologist had to endure hate triads during his vacation.

This emerges from a report by the German Press Agency.

Drosten was therefore probably camping in a campsite in southern Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania when he was approached by three permanent campers.

Christian Drosten filed a complaint against three campers for insult and defamation after they had approached him.

© Michael Kappeler/dpa

The two women and one man called him a "mass murderer" and said "that he had children on his conscience."

Drosten himself then called the police and filed a complaint for defamation.

But even after the officers arrived, the camper trio was difficult to calm down, they say.

"Mass murderer": Christian Drosten badly insulted during camping vacation

The police spokeswoman did not want to say anything because of ongoing investigations into the content of the insults.

The incident happened last Saturday at Ellbogensee, south of the Müritz in the border region with Brandenburg.

Drosten has meanwhile left as planned, as reported by kreiszeitung.de.

On Wednesday afternoon, Drosten wrote on Twitter that he would go on vacation "always and anytime in MeckPomm".

"After all, I'm a North German, and it's just good there!" Drosten was born in Lingen in Emsland.

With his tweet he replied to a post by the weather expert Jörg Kachelmann.

He paid tribute to Drosten for "the approach of vacationing at a campsite in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania".

Drosten then wrote: "Well, we just camped at the lake for a night, unfortunately not a holiday.

That's why no early departure or anything like that."

Christian Drosten badly insulted: become a hate figure

As an expert in the course of the corona pandemic, which is currently being caused by the variant Omicron BA.5

picking up speed again and once again ensuring 3G and compulsory masks on vacation in 2022, awareness throughout Germany.

He was repeatedly confronted with hostility, for example from critics of vaccinations and other corona protection measures.

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In May 2020, Drosten told the "Spiegel" that it was now everyday life for him to receive hate messages.

Drosten at the time: "These are often completely crazy texts full of spelling mistakes, some writers are just pitiful, others are highly narcissistic, malicious and manipulative."

Source: merkur

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