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A week after the attacks on Interior Minister Karl Nehammer, the ÖVP responded with a frontal attack on predecessor Herbert Kickl.
After Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution were the focus of criticism, the ÖVP is now responding with a frontal attack on FPÖ club president Herbert Kickl. Whose party, in turn, accuses the ÖVP of covering up its own failure. The Vienna FPÖ also views the SPÖ as close to political Islam.
The motive for the ÖVP attack is Kickl’s procedure two days after the attack. The president of the FPÖ club made public the secret police actions against the Islamists. The ÖVP accuses him of endangering the police and disturbing the population.
It was a unique event in history that a former interior minister cited locked files and thus put people in danger, Viennese security spokesman Karl Mahrer said, asking Kickl to “clarify.” He pointed out that the general director of Public Security, Franz Ruf, has already presented an account of the events in this case.
However, the ÖVP didn’t give a damn about Kickl’s mandate either. “Kickl left a lot of rubbish” and, in just a year and a half in office, he filed seven motions of no confidence in parliament, the president of the Vienna ÖVP club, August Wöginger. Kickl is acting dubiously and “damages a parliamentarian’s office.”
FPÖ: “Series of failures of the Ministry of the Interior”
The FPÖ was quick to respond: The ÖVP was trying to “divert attention from its own serious flaws in the Interior Ministry, which had been in the shadows for decades,” and was “making Austria look ridiculous internationally,” said the party vice president Manfred Haimbuchner.
The FPÖ club president himself, Kickl, also spoke on Tuesday and spoke of a “catastrophic series of breakdowns by the Interior Ministry in the run-up to the bloody terrorist attack in Vienna.”
“The ÖVP’s tactics have exactly one goal: to avoid at all costs an explanation for the catastrophic failure of the black interior ministry in the run-up to the terrorist attack. This is exactly what the defenseless attacks on former Interior Minister Kickl serve, ”added FPÖ security spokesman Hannes Amesbauer to the blue counterattack.
Wöginger and security spokesman Karl Mahrer rejected the accusation that the ÖVP attacks on Kickl were aimed at diverting attention from abuses in the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Fight against Terrorism and referred to the reform of the BVT initiated by the Minister of the Interior Nehammer. Furthermore, Nehammer had requested that the permanent subcommittee of the Homeland Committee be convened to inform the members of this secret committee about more details about the BVT and the terrorist attack. This will take place in the next 14 days, Mahrer said.
Furthermore, FPÖ-appointed ombudsman Walter Rosenkranz has started an examination of the mishaps in the BVT attack in Vienna.
Two commissions
Wöginger was covered about the announced commission of inquiry, which is supposed to clarify possible errors by the authorities in the run-up to the attack. However, this should not be located in Parliament. The opposition has numerous control rights. But first an independent commission should clarify the situation.
Regardless of the keyword: Kickl again called for Nehammer’s resignation. Only in this way is a genuinely independent investigation possible. Because Nehammer only accepted the idea of a commission of inquiry so quickly because he knew he could trust his black nets and that they would break the wall for him, Kickl concluded.
SPÖ mandate under fire
But the Vienna FPÖ also used the attack for its agenda. In a press conference he accused the SPÖ of “entanglement in radical political Islam”. The party’s leader, Dominik Nepp, once again shot himself at Red City Councilor Omar Al-Rawi. Now he wants the ÖVP to set up a joint investigative committee to shed light on “Islamism in Vienna,” as he said on Tuesday.
As proof of the accusations, the FPÖ chief showed the media representatives photos that had been taken “in recent years”. According to the Freedom Party, Al-Rawi can be seen in these as a guest speaker for an association that professes to be part of the Muslim Brotherhood and was part of “computer searches”. Nepp called on Mayor Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) to exclude Al-Rawi from the party.
The court banned the testimony
The SPÖ responded with statements from Al-Rawi’s lawyer. This refers to a legally effective preliminary injunction from the Vienna Commercial Court dated October 13, 2020, “with which Dominik Nepp has banned the claim that Omar Al-Rawi is an ‘Islamist attempting to subvert democratic and constitutional structures and similar claims’. “. Al-Rawi’s lawyer will now check whether Nepp’s statements today have violated the court order, he said in a broadcast.
In any event, the FPÖ strives to create a U-Commission, in the course of which the city’s funding of Islamic associations, organizations or kindergartens will be examined. Since this requires at least a third of the leaders, the blues depend on the support of another party. This is expected through the ÖVP, with whose representatives the conversation is now being sought, despite mutual attacks.
(APA / red.)
