Returning process against former auditorium manager in September!

Returning process against former auditorium manager in September!

On May 22, 2025, it was announced that the re-operating process against the former editor-in-chief of the right-wing extremist magazine "Aula" will be due in September 2025. The announcement came from the head of the Medical Court of the State Court of Criminal Matters Graz. The investigation that has been initiated in the last five years after a complaint by the human rights organization SOS Mismensch relates to National Socialist re -activation. According to ots the SOS spokesman Alexander Pollak described the process as a highly exploster.

The accused had a political function as a FPÖ district politician in Graz for years. The FPÖ itself is accused of systematically supporting the magazine "Aula", including financial contributions. The FPÖ training institute under Herbert Kickl advertisements in the "Aula", although it propagated anti-Semitic content. Other high-ranking FPÖ politicians, such as Manfred Haimbuchner and Harald Vilimsky, also contributed to the support of the magazine.

support of anti -Semitism

The human rights organization SOS Mismensch accuses the FPÖ systematic support for anti -Semitism. A 47-page study presented by Pollak examines the role of the FPÖ in the spread of anti-Semitism and racism and describes the "auditorium" as the FPÖ guidance medium. Between 2008 and 2017, the FPÖ switched at least 130 advertisements in this magazine and estimated Pollak the costs of this advertisement on a six -figure amount. These advertisements are said to have contributed to the distribution of anti-Semitic thought and neo-Nazisympathies, as [Kurier] (https://kurier.at/phalk/inland/sos-mitmensch-fpoe-Systematische- Unterstuetung-von-Antisemitism-vor/311.748.681).

At least 45 high-ranking FPÖ politicians have actively supplied the "auditorium", including Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache. In the magazine, a warning rhetoric was propagated with regard to a "Judaization of the world" and "racial mixture". While former Nazi fighters received praise, concentration camps were defamed. Historian Juliane Wetzel confirmed the anti -Semitic orientation of the "auditorium" and pointed out the frequent use of anti -Semitic stereotypes, while the Holocaust in the magazine was often treated in quotation.

political reactions and social context

The FPÖ is under pressure to distance itself from allegations of anti -Semitism, although internal sources within the party point out that this idea is still present in the lower official ranks and the followers. Critics like Brigitte Bailer-Galanda describe the historian commission used by the FPÖ as the "white washing commission". In this context, Sebastian Schwaighofer, FPÖ-LinkSextremism spokesman, stated that the government has no real interest in the protection of citizens and neglecting ideologically motivated anti-Semitism.

An increase in anti -Semitic incidents in Austria in 2024 was recorded by 32.5 percent. According to a report by the Israelite cultural community of Vienna, 29.8 percent of the perpetrators can be assigned to the Islamist and 24.7 percent to the left -wing extremist spectrum. Schwaighofer demanded a policy that serves to their own people and does not select an anti-Semitism, which further increases the eroding relationships of trust in the state, such as [fpö] (https://www.fpoe.at/aktuell/artikel-detailsicht/antisemitism-als----unhrier- government policy) underline.