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53 respondents, 5700 archive pages. The workload that the committee of experts around former Supreme Court Vice President Ronald Rohrer has mastered in recent weeks gives an idea of the complexity of the Ischgl case.
For just over an hour, Rohrer yesterday summed up the first days of the corona pandemic in Austria at the Haus der Musik in Innsbruck. He was unable to identify “any failures” by the authorities, but they were “serious errors of judgment.”
According to experts, it was a mistake to keep skiing open in Ischgl until March 14. After the infections of several Icelanders were known on March 5 and that of a Norwegian waiter on March 7 at the aprs-ski bar “Kitzloch”, the cable car and all aprs-ski bars were reportedly closed on March 9 . as well as “a ban on meetings should be decreed,” said Rohrer.
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The “peculiarity” of the virus transmission in these restaurants was “clearly recognizable” to those responsible, Rohrer said, giving a clear example of how crowded the restaurants were on the nights in question: “Waiters had to fight their way through the guests with whistles. “
Rohrer sees clear misconduct in the mayor of Ischgl, Werner Kurz. On March 12, after Governor Gnther Platter (VP) announced the cessation of ski operations, he should have posted the regulation on the official bulletin board immediately. Because he did this on March 14, he violated city ordinance. This meant that the ski operation took even longer. Therefore, the commission submitted a statement of the facts to the prosecutor.
The press releases from the state of Tyrol, which were highly discussed in the media and stated that Icelandic guests were infected on the plane and that the virus was unlikely to be transmitted to guests in the “Kitzloch”, were “bad and wrong”. Rohrer said.
Criticism of the Chancellor
Rohrer criticized the role of the federal government with surprisingly harsh criticism. In particular, the approach taken by Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (VP), who announced on March 13 that the Paznaun Valley and St. Anton am Arlberg will be quarantined, was incomprehensible to Rohrer.
The announcement was made “surprisingly, without direct responsibility and without substantial preparation.” The Landeck district authority was not included. This provoked “panic reactions from guests and employees” who rushed away. It would have been “useful” if the Chancellor or the authorities had informed the guests in question that an outing could have taken place throughout the weekend.
Chaotic scenes
After the Chancellor’s announcement, chaotic scenes had broken out in the affected communities, Rohrer said. The guests got into their cars with their ski boots on and drove off. The rental skis were simply left in place.
There was also criticism of the Ministry of Health: it did not publish the revised pandemic plan – the outdated Epidemic Law was not suitable for this situation. The BH “was not supported in its decision making.”
Tilg provincial council is hardly a problem
Tyrol Health Councilor Bernhard Tilg (VP), who was heavily criticized in recent months, unexpectedly played a minor role in presenting the report. With the governor’s consent, Tilg had not even exercised his responsibility for the implementation of the epidemic law, but instead transferred it to the director of the state office, Herbert Forster. This was “laden with responsibility.” This change in business distribution was not allowed without a change in the ordinance and “unclear structures” were created.
The Tyrolean opposition took advantage of the presentation of the report to renew its criticism of the management of the crisis. This had “completely failed from the beginning at all levels, from the federal government to the municipality,” said Neos club president Dominik Oberhofer.
SP health spokesman Philip Kucher calls on “Chancellor Kurz, Health Minister Anschober, and Governor Platter to take political responsibility for this disaster.”
For FP deputy Michael Schnedlitz, the commission’s report shows “the mismanagement of the Tyrolean health authority and the responsible black-green federal government.”
Naturally, VP Club President Jakob Wolf interprets the experts’ report less critically. This would eventually “clear up the circulating conspiracy theories.”
The Commission
On May 13, after a long political dispute, the Tyrolean state parliament agreed to commission a commission of experts to address the much-criticized crisis management.
Former OGH Vice President Ronald Rohrer assumed the leadership of the committee. Criminal judge Josef Geisler had previously refused to head the commission.
As a procedural judge, Rohrer had already been responsible for Eurofighter’s commission of inquiry in the past.
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