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Around 100 delegates attended the event at a hotel in the Saxony-Anhalt region where top candidates for state elections in June and federal elections in September were chosen. The delegates sat close to each other in a conference room with individual tables and had removed their masks. Dessau, the town in which the party congress took place, has a coronavirus incidence of 84.9 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants.
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COVID: German politicians, scientists face threats online
German public figures who support pandemic restrictions have been targeted with death threats and abuse online. Officials are concerned by the anger directed at health authorities.
German politician and virologist Karl Lauterbach has received online hate and abuse Hang him from a tree, once and for all, one user wrote. How is he still not locked up? another asked.
These are just two examples of the online abuse received by the German member of parliament and epidemiologist Karl Lauterbach, who posted screenshots on his Twitter account over the weekend. A wave of hate is rolling over me online, Lauterbach wrote. The death threats and insults are hard to bear. Again and again, there are calls for violence.