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Experts investigated what went wrong in Ischgl. The lawyer for the aggrieved party says: Victims are entitled to compensation.
The commission of experts for the investigation of the crisis management of the crown in Ischgl has presented its report of 287 pages. In it, he criticizes the local authorities of the Landeck district, the mayor, the state of Tirol and the federal government. And very explicitly also Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
Report of the independent expert committee
The list of errors and mistakes is long. These are just a few examples: The bars remained open despite numerous infections. The ski areas were closed too late. The departure of the infected people was chaotic. The government had already revised its pandemic plan, but did not publish it due to the “political situation”.
The epidemic law of 1950 never adapted to the realities of current mobility. And finally, Chancellor Kurz was not legally authorized to declare a quarantine on Ischgl. That should have been done by the district administration.
Class action lawsuit of 6,000 tourists in Tyrol
The consequences of this and other mistakes are known: an estimated 11,000 people have been infected with the Ischgl coronavirus. At least 23 of them died. 6,000 are taking part in class actions against Ischgl, including 156 Swiss citizens.
The aim of the six-person expert commission, of which a Swiss member is crisis manager Bruno Hersche, was not to identify the culprits. Rather, what went wrong in Ischgl in the spring must be determined, and lessons for the future must be drawn from this.
We proposed to Federal Chancellor Kurz to convene a round table and find an out-of-court settlement there.
Yet for Peter Kolba, the Viennese lawyer representing some 6,000 class plaintiffs, it is clear that compensation must now be made: “If such mistakes are made, the federal government has to take responsibility.” But he would like to avoid years of testing. “We proposed to Chancellor Kurz to convene a round table and find an out-of-court settlement there.”
But that comparison could be very expensive given the number of victims. Such a comparison could also lead to more damage claims.
