The controversial financing of the Corona fund in Lower Austria for “vaccination victims’ associations” around Corona denier Martin Rutter is causing a stir in politics. Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) has now spoken out. He calls on Governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner (ÖVP) to reverse the commitment.
Rutter’s club spreads “completely untenable and factual information”, the minister explained on Friday via
A complaint is filed against the doctor
At an event last Sunday in Maria Enzersdorf (Mödling district), a general practitioner from Lower Austria reportedly claimed that corona vaccines “contain neurorobots that can be activated from outside” and that everyone who had been vaccinated had been given an IP address. Rauch announced that a disciplinary complaint would be filed against the man with the medical association. “profil” and the “Ö1” lunch magazine also reported on the event on Friday.
According to a “profile report”, the association for vaccination victims, based in Carinthia, is said to have established at least 24 branches in districts and statutory cities in Lower Austria. A maximum of three projects are financed per organization, each with a maximum of 5,000 euros. The events are advertised as being “supported by the state of Lower Austria”. According to the spokesperson of the responsible state council, Christoph Luisser (FPÖ), several applications from Rutter’s clubs have been approved. No money has flowed yet. The final disbursement of funding will only take place after a final check to ensure all requirements have been met and there is no multiple funding, the report said.
“Mocking top performers”
On Friday, criticism came again from various quarters. “Using funding to promote the utmost nonsense and rewarding people who insult the thousands of volunteers in the country is a mockery of the country’s top performers,” said Wolfgang Zwaander, regional manager of the SPÖ Lower Austria. The associated financing must be “terminated and recovered”.
“The Lower Austrian ÖVP would do well to stop its coalition partner and put an end to this,” Ralph Schallmeiner, health spokesman for the Greens, said in a broadcast. The FPÖ cannot create a state. Indra Collini, leader of the state party NEOS in Lower Austria, made similar comments. The fact that such lectures are “officially supported by the state government with taxpayer dollars is the final straw,” she pointed out.
Source: Krone
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