Weapons camp discovered: mother and son suspected!

Mutter und Sohn in der Obersteiermark wegen Waffendurchsuchung angezeigt; illegale Waffen und NS-Objekte entdeckt.
Mother and son reported in Upper Styria for weapon search; Illegal weapons and Nazi objects discovered. (Symbolbild/DNAT)

Weapons camp discovered: mother and son suspected!

In a dramatic commitment of the police in Upper Styria, several arms camps were discovered on a property. During a search on Saturday morning, the officials not only found an impressive collection of hunting weapons and war equipment, including Italian manner carcano carabiners and a machine gun of the type MG 42 from the Second World War, but also pyrotechnical materials and substances for the production of explosive fabrics. Such discoveries raise questions and require urgent measures. In this campaign, extensive legal steps were also initiated against a mother and son, which are associated with illegal areas from the time of National Socialism. This is reported by the Kleine Zeitung .

questions about the legality of the search

The search itself also attracted attention in legal circles, since the exact wording of the search decision in relation to the allegation was considered inadequate. According to a judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court, such a decision must contain detailed information on the evidence they are looking for in order to protect the fundamental rights of those affected. It was criticized that important details such as the crime room and the precisely evidence to be searched were missing. This could cause future procedures to be questioned, since the intervention in privacy was not sufficiently regulated, as reported by Rechtslupe

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OrtObersteiermark, Österreich
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