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After the attack in Vienna: Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) and Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) had to endure heavy attacks in a special parliamentary session
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Today’s special session of the National Council on the terrorist attack in central Vienna was used by the opposition to drastically attack the government, especially Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (both ÖVP).
SPÖ club president Pamela Rendi-Wagner recommended the two take responsibility rather than deport them. The leader of the liberal parliamentary group Herbert Kickl called Nehammer’s behavior cowardly, while NEOS president Beate Meinl-Reisinger called Kurz’s behavior little statesman.
Rendi-Wagner: Kurz and Nehammer should take personal responsibility
Rendi-Wagner was particularly offended that the ÖVP bosses had tried to expose alleged errors by the judiciary. So why is the commonplace always emphasized in public when the exact opposite is done? Asked the SPÖ president.
It is not about obfuscation, distraction and clichés, it is also about taking personal responsibility, he recommended to the ministers of the ÖVP. Now we would have to face the processes honestly, with the courage to admit mistakes. Therefore, it must be questioned how it happened that the perpetrator was able to obtain a war rifle without being seen and why it was not closely checked after information came from Slovakia that the man had wanted to buy ammunition there.
Kickl: “The communication error was a death sentence for four people”
That’s where Kickl began by addressing Nehammer: “What you call a miscommunication was the death sentence for four innocent people.” As Home Secretary, if he knew what to do next, he suggested that Nehammer resign. There was a terrible failure at his home: “This Islamist attack could have been prevented.”
The fact that a member of a terrorist organization can be released prematurely and “let go” of the population is the culprit of the FP club boss of “doers of good and irresponsible fantasies”. If the Chancellor speaks today of false tolerance, then that is a single accusation. What is needed now is, among other things, a law outlawing political Islam.
ÖVP vs. Justice: attacks for “seedy” Meinl-Reisinger
The ÖVP’s attacks on the judiciary found the president of the NEOS club, Meinl-Reisinger, “in bad shape”. Because there were massive errors in the area of the Ministry of the Interior, specifically in the BVT. Now it is necessary to discover a commission of inquiry, but the opposition must participate until the election of the president.
Meinl-Reisinger also indirectly warned against excessive measures as a result of the terrorist act: “The liberal social order must not be renounced. Otherwise, they would have won.” The achievements of the Enlightenment and secularism must be defended with the means of the constitutional state. “We cannot undo the evening and we can only erase the fear and horror from the table to a certain extent, but we can show that we are united as a society and we are not giving an inch,” said the head of NEOS.
Could the attack in Vienna have been prevented? Clarification required
Very little is known about the background to the attack and it is not yet clear whether it could have been prevented, said Green Club president Sigrid Maurer. Why the man was not sufficiently observed by the Office of Protection of the Constitution must be explained without mercy.
There is also the commission of inquiry announced by the Minister of the Interior. The question will also have to be addressed whether our systems are sufficiently well established, that “on the basis of basic democratic rights”. Hatred and terror are an attempt to divide. It was an attack on diversity, tolerance, respect and equality for all people. It is encouraging that cohesion is now much stronger than hatred.
Wöginger on the attack in Vienna: “Defend yourself from beginnings”
The president of the ÖVP club, August Wöginger, called for the elimination of any kind of extremism: “Defend the beginnings”, said the leader of the parliamentary group, also with a view to the devastation in Catholic churches. Wöginger described the Islamist perpetrators as sick: “We have to take decisive action against this disease.”
The police and the judiciary must have effective means to do this. The BVT had to once again become more effective in combating all extremism. This is not the time to look for scapegoats around the security authority.
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