LIVE: Nehammer reports on the current situation after the attack in Vienna – Wien Aktuell

The press conference will take place at the Ministry of the Interior in Vienna.

Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) briefed the federal government on the latest state after the terrorist attack in Vienna at a virtual ministerial meeting on Wednesday. The public will find out at a press conference at 2:30 p.m. The government has formally offset the decision to deploy the assistance of the Armed Forces in property protection, which has been in place since Monday night.

The opposition parties SPÖ and NEOS called on Wednesday before the evening session of the National Security Council to clarify the circumstances that led to the terrorist attack in Vienna. The SPÖ wants to know what the local authorities knew about the perpetrator’s failed ammunition purchase in Slovakia. The NEOS demanded the establishment of an independent commission of inquiry and the FPÖ demanded more severity in the action against radical Islam.

SPÖ club boss Jörg Leichtfried and security spokesman Reinhold Einwallner were “stunned” in a broadcast that the Interior Ministry should have been informed of an attempted purchase of ammunition by the later assassin in Slovakia. A complete and prompt clarification of what happened with this information is expected. “How can it be that the interior minister did not act immediately? We await a response from Interior Minister (Karl, note) Nehammer at the National Security Council today,” Leichtfried said.

The topic will also be the exchange of information between the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of the Interior and the Protection of the Constitution after release from prison. “How is the BVT involved and how does the information exchange work if a released criminal is in a de-radicalization program? We await responses from Interior Minister Nehammer and Justice Minister (Alma, note) Zadic,” Einwallner said. The question will also be whether a “more coherent approach” is not needed when revoking dual citizenship of people at risk.

Meanwhile, NEOS MP Douglas Hoyos called for the establishment of an independent commission of inquiry based on the model of the Griss commission, which investigated the events surrounding Hypo Alpe Adria. Such a commission should be established by parliament or the government and, in any case, it should be able to act independently, Hoyos told the APA. It is a “factual prosecution”. As head of this commission, Hoyos suggests Georg Krakow of Transparency International.

Hoyos criticized Interior Minister Nehammer: it was completely inappropriate to seek scapegoats, he said in light of his criticism of the killer’s early release from prison. A “Polit-Hick-Hack” is inappropriate, it would be useless for the Ministry of the Interior to point the finger at the Ministry of Justice.

Meanwhile, the FPÖ once again demanded “a law prohibiting political Islam with severe penalties,” as party leader Norbert Hofer put it in a broadcast. “Salafists and IS supporters have too easy a game in our country. That must be changed immediately. People who join IS-butchers have to lose their Austrian passport, as is the case with all Austrians who hire the Foreign Legion, “he stressed.” Those who are officially known, and often already convicted, Salafists and IS fans “should leave Austria immediately, he said.

Hofer also demands that mosques that are known for their radical orientation be closed. Meanwhile, Viennese FPÖ coach Dominik Nepp described the SPÖ’s demands as “implausible”. “If the SPÖ is of our opinion, then they could agree to our requests at the federal level and especially at the Viennese state level, rather than categorically rejecting and rejecting them. Feeling outraged now is completely untrustworthy.