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The anti-terror package was in line with human rights and the constitution, said the head of the Greens, Werner Kogler, after the Council of Ministers. The ÖVP can imagine life sentences and gave the first knowledge about the reform of the BVT.
The chancellor’s words were obviously drastically chosen on purpose: About 300 Austrians, so-called foreign terrorist fighters, had gone to war or at least tried to “fight, rape and murder” in Syria or Iraq, Sebastian said. Shortly on Wednesday in the press lobby after the Council of Ministers. Half of them have died or are still in combat.
And the other half? Some of them are “behind bars where they belong.” Part of it is loose. And the new anti-terror package that the government drew up on Wednesday is about these returnees: Anyone who has already served their prison sentence but is still a threat must be executed. “As with mentally abnormal lawbreakers, we want to create the opportunity to lock up these people,” Kurz said. For life if necessary. Those who have already been released from prison should receive a bracelet or an ankle bracelet.
“Against all kinds of terror”
Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler was quick to add, in the interests of the Greens, that the package was intended “against all kinds of terror.” Do not overlook that: “Also against the terror of the neo-Nazis”, who have more in common with the jihadists than you think. And in your party there are no objections to these new options for detention and surveillance? “The first thing that wins is the security we provide to citizens,” Kogler said. “Of course the Greens want that too.” These were options “expressly respecting human rights” that were decided “on the basis of the constitution.”
Then the vice-chancellor promised a “relentless error analysis.” An “independent inquiry commission” will be presented on Thursday. What is now needed is a “head and shoulders” reform of constitutional protection (BVT), which means improved structures, better information flows between authorities and “the best minds”. Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) specified that, within BVT, the intelligence service part should be separated from the state police part and given more resources, both financial and human.
Fund for victims and relatives
Like Kogler, Justice Minister Alma Zadic (Greens) did not hide the “communication gaps”: courts and prosecutors can only act “if they are informed.” For this reason, the BVT is encouraged to inform the judiciary in future on criminal matters. Kogler called this a “depoliticization of the security administration.” In addition, Zadic announced a fund for compensation and psychosocial care for victims and their families.
Integration Minister Susanne Raab (ÖVP) reported that the as-yet-unspecified criminal law ban on political Islam is accompanied by a directory of imams: anyone who invites hate preachers from abroad should expect the association to be dissolved. Foreign-funded mosques would be strictly controlled, including all “circumvention constellations.”
