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Withdrawal of citizenship
“We want a legal hardening so that the authorities have to withdraw citizenship if certain events occur,” Leichtfried said, reaffirming the demands of the mayor of Vienna, Michael Ludwig. Under current federal law, this is not possible. “As is well known, there was a procedure with the Viennese magistrate to withdraw the Austrian citizenship from the later assassin with dual citizenship, because he had tried to join the Islamic State in Syria. As it could not be proved that he actively participated in combat operations, it was legally withdrawn impossible. “Here we have to change the law,” demands Leichtfried.
Even in the case of a threat of statelessness, withdrawal should be possible, Leichtfried said. “The government is called upon to propose an adequate legal solution.”
Leichtfried also emphasizes that regardless of this, the current legal situation would have been sufficient to allow the perpetrator to be arrested. “Serious mistakes have been made in the Interior Ministry. The fact that a hit man convicted of supporting a terrorist organization illegally obtained a fully automatic assault rifle and tried to buy ammunition would have been enough to get him arrested again.”
