An expensive "pleasure"

Prison sentence because man shared a photo on Facebook

The police officer was filmed at a coronavirus demonstration in Innsbruck and the footage was shared thousands of times.(Bild: Peter Freiberger)

A wave of lawsuits by a Carinthian police officer never ends. In 2021, a photo of him went viral because he was falsely accused of knocking down an 82-year-old woman at a coronavirus demonstration. His lawyer from Tyrol defends the action, but resistance is now forming.

A click on Facebook costs many Austrians dearly. In 2021, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, they shared a photo of a police officer from Carinthia. In the post, he was accused of having pulled an 82-year-old man to the ground during a demonstration in Innsbruck. The officer did not want to put up with this.