Lisa-Maria Kellermayr was an accidental victim, but she wasn't an accidental victim.

This is how the story of suffering of a young Austrian doctor can be summarized, who killed herself last Friday in her practice in Seewalchen am Attersee in Upper Austria.

By chance, a hate mob on the Internet had become aware of her.

Since then, systematic attempts have been made to destroy the existence of women, with success in the end.

Also because the police, authorities and even the responsible medical association, apart from a few exceptions, played an inglorious role.

Michael Martens

Correspondent for Southeast European countries based in Vienna.

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The doctor began her involuntary path to notoriety in November last year with a post on Twitter, where she had been registered for more than ten years.

Before the Covid pandemic, the doctor used her account for private entries, mainly commenting on entertainment shows on television.

Only a few followed her then.

Many of her entries had the character of self-talk in front of an audience - for what she had to say there were often neither "likes" nor "retweets", in the attention currency of social media she often got nothing.

As Covid swept the world, her Twitter profile changed too.

From March 2020 onwards, the doctor devoted more and more of her tweets to the pandemic, reported on experiences with patients,

Then came November 16, 2021. A group of vaccination opponents and corona deniers demonstrated in front of a clinic in the Upper Austrian city of Wels.

Kellermayr found a video of this and tweeted it, but with an erroneous comment: Apparently without seeing what happened, she claimed the protesters had blocked the main entrance to the hospital and the Red Cross emergency exit.

But ambulances could definitely drive up to the clinic from another side, as it later turned out.

It didn't just stop at online threats

Austrian media reports that the police then corrected the doctor's statement in a separate tweet and spoke of a false report.

This can no longer be reconstructed based on the Twitter history of Lisa-Maria Kellermayr and the Upper Austria State Police Headquarters, because the corresponding tweets were deleted.

What is certain, however, is that the doctor has been targeted by aggressive corona deniers and opponents of vaccination as a result of the police correction.

Her case jumped from Twitter to the Telegram portal, where hatred and threats were even more unbridled.

They shot at Dr.

Kellermayr a.

Primitive insults were the least of the evils.

There were death threats and torture fantasies for months.

Especially from an email address - Austrian media seem to think it's safe

that there is actually a man behind the stated male identity - detailed descriptions of executions came.

Many other anonymous threats were also received.

The Internet was used as a single weapon of destruction.