Pink occasion chief Beate Meinl-Reisinger took intention at former Inside Minister and present FPÖ chief Herbert Kickl at a press convention on Tuesday and referred to as for a job power to research whether or not Kickl “presumably acted as an extension of the Russian secret service and destroyed our intelligence service.”
Meinl-Reisinger referred to an article lately revealed within the European information journal “Politico” that traces the espionage affair surrounding the fugitive Wirecard supervisor Jan Marsalek and the previous BVT chief inspector Egisto Ott and alleged connections to the FPÖ. It typically appears like a “unhealthy Hollywood or spy movie,” stated Meinl-Reisinger, besides that the actual subject right here is the safety of the nation and its inhabitants.
The media report exhibits that Marsalek noticed his likelihood as a Russian agent to affect the home intelligence service in Russia’s pursuits via the FPÖ’s participation within the authorities on the time, stated Meinl-Reisinger. She recalled the unlawful raid on the then Federal Workplace for the Safety of the Structure and Counterterrorism (BVT) below Kickl, which had massively broken the key service’s status, and that in actuality they have been “working for the Russian secret service”, “which wished precisely that”. Both Kickl was “a helpful fool for Putin” or “he knew what he was doing”, and that will be “a significant scandal” with legal relevance within the course of treason, defined the NEOS chief.
“Does he actually sleep in a pendulum clock?”
Meinl-Reisinger misses an “exercise” from Inside Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) in the entire case: “Is he actually sleeping in a pendulum clock?” Meinl-Reisinger believes that his job is to make clear and clear issues up, however: “Inside Minister Karner is doing nothing.” The NEOS are nonetheless insisting on a Russia investigation committee, however that is now not doable earlier than the election. However Meinl-Reisinger stated that they may not wait any longer, so they’re demanding that Karner arrange a job power. This needs to be arrange in the same approach to the one after the terrorist assault in Vienna and will work via the whole lot within the Inside Ministry. The duty power ought to look into: “Did Mr. Kickl the truth is presumably (…) destroy our intelligence service as an extension of the Russian secret service?”
In any case, the EU elections on June 9 are about making certain a robust Europe that may defend itself towards Russia. We should not permit “those that are literally enjoying Putin’s sport” to take management of the levers of energy.
