Nehammer promises a policy of “total toughness of the rule of law”

Interior Minister Karl Nehammer was invited to ZIB2 on Wednesday. With Armin Wolf he spoke about the terrorist package planned by the federal government.

In an interview with ORF journalist Armin Wolf, the Interior Minister defended the government’s plan to create the possibility of locking up terrorists for life. At the same time, he ruled out resigning as interior minister over the November 2 incidents. That is not your understanding of the responsibility to run away when it gets tough.

Nehammer announced that, together with Justice Minister Alma Zadic, he will present on Thursday the commission of experts that will investigate possible failures of the authorities in the run-up to the Vienna terrorist attack. He promised that this commission would act independently and provide transparent information. At the same time, a strong position against terrorism is needed. If a terrorist is locked up and remains dangerous, there is no reason for them to release him, the interior minister said. Electronic media, such as ankles, are also available as a possible in-room option.

Should the perpetrators have worked for the protection of the constitution?

Now it is important to look closely at where the errors have occurred. Meanwhile, the head of the Vienna Office for the Protection of the Constitution (LVT) has already been relieved of his duties. In response to criticism from the opposition, Nehammer said that parliament had a variety of options for parliamentary control.

The interior minister declined to comment on a rumor that the Office for the Protection of the Constitution wanted to smuggle the city’s murderer onto the Islamist scene as an informant. You will not comment on an ongoing procedure. Now it is important to clarify the open questions that still exist after the night of terror. Above all, questions about how the attacker entered the city center and whether he knew accomplices or a network behind him are now under investigation. Your job is to advance this investigation.

Nehammer was a determined fighter against terrorism and said that criminal law must be evaluated. It takes “the full rigor of the rule of law,” Nehammer said. Nehammer did not respond whether he wanted to imprison the Vienna perpetrator for life, who had been sentenced to 22 months in prison for attempting to travel to Afghanistan and Syria.