The police are investigating more than 40 cases of hate messages to a family doctor in the Osnabrück district who no longer wants to treat anti-corona vaccine opponents in his practice.

The majority of it is about insults, in other individual cases also about threats and sedition, said a police spokeswoman on Thursday the news agency dpa.

Some suspects have already been identified, probably because they signed hate mail with full names, for example.

But this is still only an interim result.

The investigation continued, emphasized the spokeswoman.

Since the doctor advised a patient who did not want to be vaccinated to look for another family doctor, the doctor has received threats of violence.

He is under police protection.

In an interview with the FAZ at the beginning of August, the doctor had described the messages and calls: "There are people who write 'asshole, verrecke', others compare me to the Nazi war criminal and doctor Josef Mengele or call me 'Auschwitz selector'" " , he said. “But there are also threats of violence and murder. In a one-page letter someone wrote that he would come to my practice, fix my practice staff and me and torture me for as long as possible before we die in pain. It sounds like a script for a horror film. "