Bang in the middle of the heated discussion about personal protection for politicians: Green club chairwoman Sigrid Maurer was attacked by a corona opponent on Thursday evening in downtown Vienna, according to “Krone” information! She was unguarded…
The alleged perpetrator first attacked her verbally against the background of his opposition to corona protection measures and then threw a glass in her face, the police said. The club chairwoman was not injured. Police officers were immediately on the spot and were able to locate the attacker. No personal protection Maurer filed a complaint on suspicion of bodily harm, the investigations against 26-year-old Austrians are ongoing. Despite threats, there was no personal protection for the politician at the time of the physical attack. Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) condemned the attack shortly after it became known: “Violence must never be a means of political debate.” Green party leader and Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler was also outraged. “My party colleague and esteemed friend Sigi Maurer was the victim of a physical attack today,” he wrote via social media: “I condemn cowardly acts of violence like this in the strongest terms and should have no place in our democracy.” NEOS boss Beate Meinl-Reisinger and Wiens Mayor Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) also supported the chairwoman of the Greens. Not Maurer’s first experience of violence The attack is not the first publicly known experience of violence in Maurer’s political career. In 2018 she received obscene messages via Facebook, made this public and was then sued by a man known as “Bierwirt” for defamation. She was finally acquitted in 2021. At the time, she spoke of a precedent that triggered a public debate about “hate on the internet”. Eddy about Cobra guards about the Cobra guard for endangered politicians was last after an alcohol accident of an elite police officer (he had 1.2 per mille ) with the company car in front of the Chancellor’s family apartment – as reported – a heated discussion broke out. The SPÖ also made a parliamentary inquiry in a multi-page letter based on anonymous allegations including explosive private details about Karl Nehammer’s two children.
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