Scandal about rosary: neo-Nazi allegations shock Austria's politics!

Scandal about rosary: neo-Nazi allegations shock Austria's politics!

The recent revelations about the office manager of National Council President Walter Rosenkranz have caused massive excitement. According to a report by SOS Mensch moves in a neo-Nazi environment currently involved in an email exchange within this circles. These connections are not acceptable for the human rights organization, and it calls for the immediate dismissal of the office manager, René Schimanek. Alexander Pollak from SOS Mithensch describes the situation as a "giant scandal", since the National Council President himself acts as the highest guardian of parliamentarianism.

Investigations and political reactions

The Greens use this incident to request a change in the law that Rosenkranz could remove from its role as chairman of the National Fund for victims of National Socialism, such as the The press reports. In a forest house that the Schimanek family has been using since the 1970s, constitutional protectors found NS memorabilia and ammunition-a discovery that only reinforced the excitement.

The Greens plan to bring in a corresponding application in the budget committee on Friday. At the same time, the ÖVP of Rosenkranz demands that the necessary consequences to be drawn after he had promised to be a president for all parties when he was inaugural. Rosary himself refers to the presumption of innocence and emphasizes that Schimanek had always acted correctly.
In addition, the Greens have announced a parliamentary request to find out which measures ros wreath took after the allegations became known and to what extent the investigation as chairman of the National Fund is compatible. "If there is even the slightest suspicion in the room that René Schimanek is in connection with violent neo-Nazi groups, he cannot work in the first row of our democracy," explains Lukas Hammer, the right-wing extremism spokesman for the Greens.