Hafenecker had alleged that Katharina Nehammer had received information from her husband about an upcoming house search at the mask company Hygiene Austria and passed it on to the company. “The accusation is absurd and constructed,” emphasizes her lawyer.
The injunction against Hafenecker has a long history: Katharina Nehammer sued a Krntner who claimed in a Facebook post that she worked for Hygiene Austria, the company of the husband of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (VP). In addition, the man had suggested that Katharina Nehammer earned money from the company’s mask production: “Uiii there is money made and the good people believe it was for health” (sic!), It says in the often shared post. After a settlement, the man has to pay 3,500 euros in compensation and the legal costs. In addition, other users who shared the post received this request from lawyer Nehammers. FP and SP had sharply criticized the approach.
At a press conference on this topic on Wednesday, FP mandate Hafenecker also stated that Katharina Nehammer may have learned of the upcoming raid on Hygiene Austria “in a marital exchange of information” and passed this information on to management. The wife of Minister Karl Nehammer (VP) does not want to put up with this accusation either and therefore sued Hafenecker and, as the media owner of FP-TV, the liberal club for omission and revocation. Hafenecker’s statements are “untrue”, emphasizes her lawyer Oliver Scherbaum, “the accusation is absurd and constructed”. The political immunity of the MP does not apply in civil proceedings for statements in a press conference.
According to Nehammer, the fact that Scherbaum has taken on legal representation in this matter has nothing to do with the criticism of lawyer Michael Rami, who was accused by SP and FP of demanding excessive payments from Facebook posters as a constitutional judge and threatening the criminal judge. As a constitutional judge, Rami does not represent top politicians and does not act against politicians, which is why she has now hired Scherbaum for the lawsuit against the Freedom Party, explained Nehammer.
Rami remains Nehammer’s legal representative in the case of Facebook posting. Rami is not impressed by the fact that, as the FP criticizes, “desperate citizens” are asked to pay the checkout. “My client will continue to defend herself against hate postings with all legal steps in the future,” he confirmed to the APA. “The social networks like Facebook and Twitter are regularly searched by my law firm and defamatory postings are followed up.” Everyone who has spread these allegations has also “published the defamation and is liable under criminal, media and civil law”. The required amount of 3,500 euros is “in any case appropriate, especially since it does not even make up 10 percent of the legal maximum amount of 40,000 euros”.
