The virologist Christian Drosten has been under constant fire from opponents of vaccination and lateral thinkers since the beginning of the pandemic. Now that the virus is no longer dominating everything, he wants to relax on a camping holiday. But at a campsite near the Müritz, he was verbally attacked in such a way that he called the police.
Virologist Christian Drosten has reported abuse at a campsite in the Mecklenburg Lake District to the police. A spokeswoman for the Neubrandenburg police inspection confirmed that he had filed a complaint against three permanent campers – two women and one man – for defamation.
As reported by the online portal “Wir sind Müritzer”, the campers called Drosten a “mass murderer” and “transhumanist”. Transhumanists want to expand their body’s abilities, including with technical possibilities. They also accused him of having “children on his conscience”. They were apparently alluding to the measures recommended by Drosten to contain the corona by vaccinations during the pandemic.
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 again as planned. Only recently, in an interview with “Spiegel”, the 50-year-old said that now that the pandemic is no longer dominating everything, he is particularly looking forward to camping holidays.
The scientist gained fame throughout Germany as an expert in the wake of the corona pandemic. He was repeatedly confronted with hostility, for example from critics of vaccinations and other corona protection measures.
