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In the voting booth, the Greens advocate for unarmed police operations. The ÖVP Vienna is furious, the Greens consider Vienna safe enough.
As before every election, the website wahlkabine.ata also summarizes the most important positions of the parties for the Vienna elections on October 11. In order to bring party positions closer to the voters, the voting booth team asked the campaigning parties 25 questions. One is now causing a stir.
Specifically, it refers to question 12: “Should the Viennese police, with the exception of special units, carry out their duty without firearms?” Almost all parties clearly reject it, but there are also two supporters: the Greens and the Left.
This provokes severe criticism from the Vienna ÖVP: “The absurd populist electoral campaign of the Viennese Greens is apparently reaching its climax. The Greens’ call for the police to be disarmed lacks common sense among the Greens and, therefore it must clearly be rejected. ” tape non-executive councilor Markus Wölbitsch and security spokesman Karl Mahrer.
ÖVP Vienna considers the proposal “irresponsible”, SPÖ and FPÖ reject it, the Greens keep it
Now it demands clarification and clear clarification from the green leader. For Mahrer, himself a former vice president of the state police, disarming the executive is “absolutely irresponsible.” After all, it is about the safety of police officers, who risk their lives every day, Mahrer said.
The red coalition partner also rejects the proposal: “Of course not to demand! The police have the task of ensuring public order and security in the country and use their firearms very rarely and with care. The police of Vienna is very careful with the excellently formed weapon “, emphasize the councilors of the SP Marcus Schober and Christian Hursky. And Hursky becomes even clearer: “Don’t even think about it.”
FPÖ Deputy Mayor Dominik Nepp also finds clear words: “Instead of working to improve the Vienna police team, the red-green city government of Vienna apparently wants to achieve the opposite and make them almost powerless against criminals taking the weapons away from the police. “.
The police must be able to arrest a criminal. “If necessary, using the firearm. This is for everyone’s safety. Because whoever believes that you can always calm a criminal armed with kind words and a teddy bear ”lives in a parallel world of the left, according to Nepp.
The Vienna Greens see it differently. Already in the field of comments on Wahlkabine.at they note that “Fortunately Vienna is so safe that the Viennese police rarely have to use firearms. It does not seem necessary to carry a firearm outside the special forces.”
In “Today”When asked, Green Security spokesperson Niki Kunrath emphasizes this again: “Vienna is one of the safest cities in the world. Vienna is so safe that, for example, in Great Britain, where only about 5% of officers police carry firearms, most with Tasers. Pepper sprays and batons may be sufficiently armed when traveling. We cannot understand why traffic police officers should be armed. “
