In an “urgent request”, party and club boss Herbert Kickl attacked the interior minister head-on and blamed a lack of action for the relevant crimes. Head of department Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) promised the parents of the victim to do everything to clear up the case and referred to the rule of law.
Kickl has been pushing for a minute’s silence for the 13-year-old, who died after a violent encounter with several young Afghans. The other parliamentary groups rejected this, and the President of the National Council, Wolfgang Sobotka (ÖVP), referred to the relevant practices. Thereupon Kickl used his last speech for a minute’s silence.
“Failure of the Ministry of the Interior to be responsible for death”
Before that, he had usually sharply attacked the government for its too lax refugee policy. The action is inconsistent, discouraged and far too soft. Failure by the ministry would have cost the girl her life: “When it comes to actions, the result is 0.0.”
The goal must be the “Fortress Europe”: “Everything else leads to ruin.” Kickl is pushing for changes to the European regulations. Because the law must follow politics, the club boss quoted himself with one of his most controversial statements in his time as interior minister.
Nehammer: “Why didn’t you deport the asylum seekers?”
In return, his successor, Nehammer, asked Kickl why he hadn’t deported the suspects when the 13-year-old died in his time as head of department, and immediately replied: because there were constitutional requirements and he, as Minister of the Interior, had to admit to them hold: “Because we are a democratic state.”
In any case, the head of department doesn’t think much of the work of his predecessor in the ministry. He only bought horses and exchanged tables in Traiskirchen. Nehammer counted about the 72-hour process on his own track record. Overall, he wants to focus primarily on three points: increased returns, better external border protection and faster procedures.
SPÖ: “Error in the system”
In the debate, Reinhold Einwallner (SPÖ) identified an error in the system. There is no other explanation for the fact that well-integrated schoolchildren and trained apprentices are deported, while at the same time criminal asylum seekers roaming around freely. He assessed the attacks between Kickl and Nehammer as an indication that neither the FPÖ nor the ÖVP could create solutions here. Nikolaus Scherak (NEOS) also spoke of a brotherly dispute. The mutual offsetting does not lead to preventing even a single murder.
Georg Bürstmyr (Greens) warned against being guided by thirst for revenge. The FPÖ’s proposals, which it introduced by means of a motion for a resolution – for example the suspension of asylum applications on Austrian and European soil – are unsuitable for solving any problem, but they are also unconstitutional, international and unconstitutional. Karl Mahrer from the coalition partner ÖVP pleaded for a clear change on the subject of asylum and migration in Europe, but emphasized that no state could be made with Kickl. Hannes Amesbauer (FPÖ) accused the ÖVP of inaction. She was “an accomplice in the entire situation of mass immigration”.
