Tue Jan 18, 2022 – 3:26 pm EST
VIENNA (LifeSiteNews) — 600 Austrian police officers have asked the Austrian Interior Minister to withdraw plans for mandatory vaccination and called for an end to discrimination against unvaccinated people.
The letter, addressed to Austrian Interior Minister, Gerhard Karner, and dated January 10, was signed by three police officers who claim to represent a group of over 600 of their colleagues.
“We do not want to face the population in a threatening manner during what are predominantly peaceful demonstrations which were organized due to the increasing dissatisfaction of the people with politicians,” wrote the authors of the letter.
Last weekend, several demonstrations took place throughout Austria again, including in the country’s capital of Vienna, where an estimated 20,000 people took to the street Saturday to oppose plans to make vaccination mandatory for every citizen over 18.
The Austrian Ministry of the Interior reacted to the letter by saying that “the people who signed [it] can be assigned a clear political orientation.”
“85% of the 32,000 Austrian police officers have already been vaccinated, that is a clear statement,” the ministry added.
However, the authors of the letter denied precisely this, arguing instead that they do not represent any particular political group.
“We are not far-right or far-left extremists, we are not anti-vaxxers … we are
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