Starnberger threatens a "people's tribunal" - in the end a doctor is dead
Created: 2022-08-23 05:21
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Lisa-Maria Kellermayr (in the photo above left) received hate messages.
After her death, mourning candles were also given before the Austrian public prosecutor's office.
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The doctor Lisa-Maria Kellermayr receives death threats from opponents of the corona measures.
The woman dies in July.
Now it is determined against a Starnberger.
Starnberg/Seewalchen – On Twitter he gave himself the name “@RomanM56187194” – probably only he knows why the many numbers.
Roman M., 59, from Starnberg is one of thousands who like to let off steam anonymously.
However, a tweet now has serious consequences: it led to investigations into threats and stalking.
At the beginning of August, at the instigation of the Munich Public Prosecutor's Office, the police searched Roman M.'s apartment and secured data media.
"The accused was cooperative," says the press release that was published afterwards.
Threat against Kellermayr on Twitter: Starnberger announced "people's tribunals".
A tweet prompted the authorities – after much hesitation – to act.
It's a tweet that Austrian doctor Dr.
Lisa-Maria Kellermayr made public at the end of June.
"Miss Dr.
Kellermayr,” Roman M. wrote, “we are watching you and we will bring such creatures before the people's tribunals to be set up in the future!”
By the time Kellermayr made this threat visible, she was already at the end of her strength.
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Doctor is targeted by corona deniers
The 36-year-old general practitioner with her own practice in Seewalchen am Attersee in Upper Austria had been increasingly caught in the crosshairs of corona deniers and lateral thinkers since 2021.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, she had been committed to drawing attention to the danger of corona infections, had promoted vaccinations and had not kept secret her opinion of the scene of pandemic deniers.
The battlefield was - not only, but also - the social media, especially Twitter.
Physical pursuits followed threats.
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In the end, Kellermayr felt so threatened that she hired a security service that actually took butterfly knives from four patients in her practice.
Doctor Kellermayr in distress - and without help
She did not feel that she was taken seriously by the Austrian authorities, including the police.
In June she closed her practice, as doctors' practices are called in Austria.
"For more than 7 months we have been receiving death threats from the Covid measures opponents scene at irregular intervals," she wrote on the homepage of her practice.
A month later, on July 29, she took her own life.
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In Austria, the doctor's suicide has been an important topic for weeks, even Austria's Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen condoled.
He called for an end to "this intimidation and fear": "Hate and intolerance have no place in our Austria."
Suspect lives in Starnberg – investigations also against neo-Nazis in Berlin
What is less well known is that two of the worst impersonators of Dr.
Kellermayr came from Germany.
In addition to Roman M., this was a Twitter user named "Class, the Killer", who, according to "Spiegel", is said to be a well-known neo-Nazi from Berlin.
He, who threatened to murder Kellermayr, is now also being investigated.
Roman M. also has a criminal history: As the Attorney General confirms, there are "numerous entries in the Federal Central Register" about him - M. has previous convictions for theft, fraud, embezzlement and bodily harm, among other things.
M. is currently running an online mail order business in Starnberg - and that indirectly contributed to his exposure.
Because M. had apparently sent his threat to the "People's Tribunal" by email with his business address.
So it was hardly surprising that an Internet activist quickly found out M.'s real name and was able to give the Austrian authorities - who made quite a fool of themselves here - clues as to the identity of "Class".
German authorities react tentatively: Starnberger sees it as a success
However, according to all that is known, the German authorities also reacted rather hesitantly.
One question is why the Bavarian authorities only took action after the death of Dr.
Kellermayr decided to search M.'s rooms.
The answer given by the Attorney General's Office to our newspaper's inquiry only leads to the conclusion that the wheels of the authorities sometimes grind very slowly.
After the first hate postings, according to press spokesman Klaus Ruhland, the Austrian investigators did some research in February of this year and consulted the police in Germany "by way of administrative assistance".
"The reply was then also sent to the police."
The public prosecutor's office in Wels (Upper Austria) then stopped investigating M., but handed the case over to Bavaria.
M. saw this as a success: "She (Dr. Kellermayr – ed.) reported me to the public prosecutor's office, the ad was discontinued for lack of criminal substance." And then M. said: "The tribunal, d (a) I am personally (personally) sure, will come.”
You can find more current news from the district of Starnberg at Merkur.de/Starnberg.
Hate speech against the doctor: the public prosecutor investigates
At the end of June, however, the public prosecutor's office in Wels first informed the public prosecutor's office in Traunstein about the case, which then passed the facts on to the public prosecutor's office in Munich II and in turn to the general public prosecutor's office responsible for extremism.
When the search took place on August 5, Dr.
Kellermayr is already dead.
Even today, Roman M. does not seem particularly impressed by the search of his apartment and the investigation.
He has now found a new enemy: the Internet activist who identified him long before the Austrian and German authorities.
In an email from last week, he attacks her.
You spread hatred and hate speech against him - the wording of the e-mail, in which wild theories about supposedly real people's tribunals are spread, is available to our editors.
M. continues to explain that he himself will now report false allegations.
And also: With calls for violence against Dr.
He has nothing to do with Kellermayr.
The investigations against M. continue, however, the evaluation of the data carrier, according to the Attorney General, is "not yet complete".
RomanM56187194's Twitter account has now been suspended.
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