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SPÖ leader Rendi-Wagner at a commemorative event
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According to the president of the SPÖ, Pamela Rendi-Wagner, the antiterror package presented by the federal government with the implementation of measures for people in danger and electronic surveillance after serving prison only contains “slogans and titles”. Since the government has yet to come up with anything concrete, it would be “dubious” to discuss it now, Rendi-Wagner said Thursday. He pleaded for exhausting all existing legal possibilities.
The central question for Rendi-Wagner is whether the terrorist attack in central Vienna could have been prevented. And it assumes that the murderer would have had to be arrested beforehand if the constitutional protection had done its job correctly and the mistakes in the Ministry of the Interior had not occurred.
Similarly, the head of NEOS, Beate Meinl-Reisinger, regarding the prosecution of the attack in Vienna, continued to request that an independent commission of inquiry including the parliament and the opposition, for example, in a committee of secret service with strict confidentiality provisions. “And only then do we ask the question of guilt, and only then do we ask whether further legal action may be needed.”
NEOS is concerned that the government is now taking action based on political action, without even checking whether they are necessary. Before the attack, things went very wrong. This is not due to the lack of laws, but to the poor application of existing laws.
The Islamic Religious Community in Austria (IGGÖ) criticizes the antiterrorism package planned by the federal government and identifies wrong priorities in it. The government preferred to act hastily and without involving the opposition and civil society, IGGÖ President Ümit Vural said in a disappointed broadcast on Thursday.
“Islamist extremism aims at our democracy, our freedoms and our social peace,” it read: “Therefore, from the IGGÖ’s point of view, it is the task of society as a whole to defend itself against these attacks and not renounce no freedom. ” Furthermore, some of the proposed measures cannot be reconciled with security.
“The government has proposed a registry of imams. The IGGÖ already has one. But how could that have stopped the murderer?” Vural was surprised: “The IGGÖ has clearly positioned itself as an ally in the fight against all kinds of extremism. “But it is not an auxiliary police, there is no security apparatus. When the authorities have solid evidence, we have to work together constructively to take the appropriate measures.”
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