The former chairman of the Freedom Party, Heinz-Christian Strache, has now written down his memory of the fateful holiday on the Balearic island in a book. Furthermore, he is characterized largely as a victim – both conspiratorial circles, as well as his former “party friends”, with whom he extensively settled in “The Ibiza Assassination”.
“This book is a personal appraisal and accounting, but not an indictment. But it is neither a justification nor an apology”, Strache clarifies more or less clearly in the preface. What is it now? “It is the view of a politician who has been the victim of a long-planned intrigue but does not want to wallow in the role of victim.” Nevertheless, Strache then also wants to correct the media’s view of things: “A politician who is not corruptible even in this state: that would have been the real headline.”
Strache locates intrigues everywhere. Especially in his former political party: “Whoever might have had an interest in my resignation and the weakening, perhaps even smashing of the FPÖ, these plans would not have been feasible without the willing help of my ‘party friends’.” Johann Gudenus, around whom there was a “multitude of strange networks and questionable contacts”, comes off almost best. Strache asks himself again: “Was he blackmailed, was it stupid, had he been promised money or was it a combination of all these factors?”
Strache’s successor, Herbert Kickl, is more suspicious. He had long had the party leadership in his sights, but as Jörg Haider’s former speaker it was too difficult for him to follow in his footsteps, the author speculates. But Strache also locates networks elsewhere: “Allegedly, it was the clique around Norbert Hofer, Dominik Nepp and Manfred Haimbuchner who, together with the ÖVP-related Order of St. George, which has obviously undermined the FPÖ for years – after my resignation Herbert Kickl also had his sights on and wanted to sideline him politically. “
But even after the resignation of the former FPÖ chief and vice chancellor, the “attacks” would not have stopped: “Just as if that weren’t enough, my vacation in Croatia ended dramatically in June of this year: a few hundred meters from the port of Biograd A fire broke out on board the boat I was on with my family for reasons that were not yet clear. ” And at another point Strache speculates: “Perhaps I was lucky that a planned car bomb attack on me did not come to fruition?”
Finally, the author asks himself: “Are some supposed conspiracy theories perhaps after all a conspiracy practice that has been lived for years?” The answer follows immediately: “Some theories are currently being realized at a breathtaking speed and in a frightening manner, as if certain global circles could no longer wait to achieve their political goals in the next five to ten years.”
But Strache also draws a summary of his fateful Ibiza vacation. “From today’s point of view it seems very strange to me that my willpower was not enough to really leave, although I found the evening extremely uncomfortable and after several hours I was completely disheveled and exhausted.” In any case, “the day after” was terrible.
Source From: Nachrichten
