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Nehammer wants to take stronger measures against radical assemblies.
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After a demonstration against France in Vienna, which was not initially banned, was banned on Sunday, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer wants to make sure that meetings based on radical ideas are prevented from the start.
The Interior Minister announced that he had instructed the Director General of Public Security Franz Ruf to “carefully examine” meetings with radical or extreme ideas.
Nehammer wants to take stronger action against radical assemblies
Extremist groups used Sunday to worry Viennese and create a climate of mutual rejection and hatred, Nehammer said, referring to the planned demonstration in front of the French embassy and the “disruptive action” by former PEGIDA spokesman Georg. Immanuel Nagel in Josefstadt.
“After today’s events, I instructed the Director General of Public Safety, Franz Ruf, to immediately contact the heads of all the first instance assembly authorities and to raise awareness,” Nehammer told the APA. And further: “It cannot and must not be that extremists, regardless of which side and with what intention, use these days for agitation and hate speech. We must act against this with all our might, including the possibilities of the right of assembly. “.
“Strictly prohibit” the spread of extremist ideas
Nehammer demanded that, especially in exceptional times, “meetings that give the appearance of spreading extremist ideas” must be legally reviewed in advance. As a further consequence, such planned assemblies “if the legal situation allows it, will be strictly prohibited.”
Recalling the terrorist attack in central Vienna on Monday night, the Interior Minister concluded: “The terrorist’s aim was to divide our society. We will not allow him, and his henchmen from across the political spectrum, to do so. Our a free and democratic society does not shrink from anything or anyone “.
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