Austria
TODAY • 11:50 am
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Despite charges, a terrorist suspect had to be released.
According to a report in the Kronenzeitung, a 32-year-old terror suspect recently had to despite urgent suspicion and final indictment of the Graz Public Prosecutor’s Office released from custody become. The reason is that the permissible duration of pre-trial detention, which is limited to two years, has been exceeded.
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So the man was released from custody. In view of the seriousness of the allegations against him, it is more than questionable whether the man classified as dangerous will appear at his court hearing at the regional court in Vienna. He is said to have been involved in the beheading of people, which is why him among other things Murder and attempted murder as a terrorist offense is charged. He belongs to the environment of the radical Islamic Viennese preacher Mirsad O., who has already been sentenced to a 20-year prison sentence in Graz, which he is currently serving.
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The act was at the highest court
The current charge was brought in early November. It concerns Mirsad O., the Chechen who has now been released from prison, and four women who, among other things, have to answer for terrorist and criminal organizations, anti-subversive connections and training for terrorist purposes. The defense submitted a motion to transfer jurisdiction from Graz to Vienna. The file was transferred from the Graz Higher Regional Court to the Supreme Court (OGH) before Christmas. It is not clear where the file lay and how long it took to process it. The fact is, however, that the Regional Court of Vienna, to which jurisdiction ultimately fell, was apparently no longer able to schedule a timely hearing. OGH-Sprecherin Alexandra Michel-Kwapinski on Wednesday rejected allegations that the decision had to be taken too long. The Supreme Court received the file on February 15, sent it to the General Procuratorate two days later for a statement, received it back together with the file on March 2, and clarified responsibility on March 25.
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“There was no delay,” emphasized Michel-Kwapinski. The Vienna Regional Court for Criminal Matters is therefore responsible for the main hearing “because some of the executive acts covered by the indictment are said to have taken place in the district of the Higher Regional Court Vienna”. It is unclear when the main hearing will take place in Vienna. The Vienna State Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Fight against Terrorism (LVT) had been informed before Tulpal I was released, “in order to take all necessary measures”.
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Reactions
Justice Minister Alma Zadic (Greens) were extremely cautious about the matter in the press foyer after the Council of Ministers. The procedure within the jurisdiction will be checked internally. She wanted that do not anticipate.
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“It is madness that a terrorist and murder suspect, who is classified as highly dangerous by the protection of the constitution, can now move freely again in our country, just because a deadline has been missed,” said the Styrian FPÖ chairman Mario Kunasek to consider.
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The detainee had to be “monitored at every turn by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and never let a second out of their sight”. The FPÖ wants to address a parliamentary question to Justice Minister Alma Zadic (Greens) in order to shed light on the background to the dismissal.
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