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Meanwhile, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (VP), who had also criticized the judiciary, has come under pressure because the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Fight against Terrorism (BVT), which has its headquarters, may have made the decisive mistakes.
The backstory: In mid-July, three and a half months before his crime, F. went to Slovakia with a partner to buy ammunition for his Kalashnikov, the later murder weapon, which he was denied due to lack of a gun license . The Slovak secret service immediately reported the incident to BVT, as confirmed yesterday by the director general of Public Security, Franz Ruf. However, this information was only transmitted to the Vienna Public Prosecutor’s Office on Monday night before a search at the home of the murdered attacker, as explained by her spokeswoman Nina Bussek.
Had he been informed about the ammunition purchase attempt in the summer, that would have been a reason to re-arrest the man, said the head of the individual criminal affairs section of the Justice Ministry, Barbara Göth-Flemmich. In the case of parole on December 5, 2019, the court ruled that the 20-year-old should be under observation for three years. The department of the interior was informed about this.
Former Interior Minister Herbert Kickl (FP) also took this note: in the course of an undercover investigation into the Islamist scene (“Operation Ansa”), F. was also “on the radar of constitutional protection shortly after his release from prison “, affirmed the FP-President of the club. Because a deradicalized person would certainly not try to “get ammunition for an assault rifle”, it was a mystery why the BVT “had not taken it a long time ago.” Kickl went even further with a claim: A major police operation on the Islamist scene was planned for November 3 under the codename “Ramses” in Vienna. The attacker had struck the day before, because at BVT “there could be another leak,” Kickl said.
Nehammer’s counterattack: Kickl, of all people, who “permanently damaged the BVT, not to say destroyed it during this time, is now the one who screams the loudest.” In this regard, the Interior Minister had to admit that “obviously something went wrong” before the terrorist attack. At the National Security Council with the parliamentary parties, Nehammer announced the establishment of an “independent commission of inquiry.” This should clarify all the facts and “keep an eye on” how threats can best be identified in the future.
Detention until mid-July
Was there a contradiction for short? Thesis that the attack could have been avoided if F., who was sentenced to 22 months in prison on April 25, 2019 for trying to join the Islamic State, had served the full sentence. Even then he would have been released in mid-July, Goeth-Flemmich said. Because F. had been imprisoned in Turkey for several months before being transferred to Vienna. This time must be counted towards the prison sentence. (luc)
