Kickl under pressure: Where is the mysterious Russian dagger?

Kickl under pressure: Where is the mysterious Russian dagger?

A former Russian officer dagger, Herbert Kickl (FPÖ) received as a guest gift during his term as Interior Minister in Moscow in 2018 in Moscow, is now at the center of a political dispute. The dagger that Kickl, as he himself stated, took with him as a souvenir from the Ministry of the Interior was not reported to his department, which the SPÖ called on the scene. MP Kai Jan Krainer sees Kickl as a duty to give back the gift, since guest gifts remain the property of the republic, as the discussion about other gifts from Russia shows, including the disputed sapphire earrings by ex-foreign minister Karin Kneissl. According to Today.

In a parliamentary request, Krainer found that Kickl did not make a form of message to his ministry when receiving the dagger that comes from the Russian Navy. The response from the Ministry of the Interior confirmed that the dagger was not inventorized and that nothing was known about his whereabouts. In this regard, the ministry said that "such a dagger" did not report any report about the preservation, which also made it more difficult to clarify Kickl's handling of the gift. This message was taken up by oe24.at, which is waiting for the previously outstanding explanation of the FPÖ, why Kickl does not register the gift has.