Karl Nehammer

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Karl Nehammer
Minister of the Interior
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 January 2020
Chancellor	Sebastian Kurz
Preceded by
Personal details
Born	(1972-10-18) 18 October 1972 (age 48) Vienna, Austria
Political party	Austrian People's Party
Alma mater	Danube University Krems

Karl Nehammer (born 18 October 1972)^[1] is an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) who has been serving as minister of the interior in the government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz since January 2020.^[2]

Under his leadership, the Austrian government filed charges in mid-2020 against a person who had confessed to spying for Turkey’s secret service.^[3]

Political career[]

Nehammer led the government response following the 2020 Vienna attack.^[4] He described the attacker as an "Islamist terrorist" and a sympathiser of the Islamic State,^[4] and admitted that intelligence services under his jurisdiction had failed to communicate information that could have prevented the attack.^[5]

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A recent investigation report on the attack in Vienna put Nehammer under pressure. According to new findings, Nehammer must have known of the perpetrator’s intentions. Chairwoman Ingeborg Zerbes said on Tuesday that the “smoking gun” was not found, but knowledge gained was “blatant enough”.^[6] The report stated, authorities failed to pass on information regarding a purchase attempt of ammunition for a Kalashnikov assault rifle in Bratislava, while the BVT had also observed a meeting of the later attacker with IS fighters from Germany and Switzerland on July 17, 2020. Less than a week later, it reported the result. Kujtim F. is described as a member of the “local Islamist / extremist spectrum around the cities of St. Pölten and Vienna”, the investigative commission summed up.

The following passage of their interim report was then blacked out by the Ministry of the Interior: “In view ofits ‘multilateral nature’, the BVT will place the entire meeting in the context of an ‘international (sic!) Network of Islamists consolidating in Vienna’ and with an ‘IS terrorist cell in Kosovo’, to which the planning of attacks (also) in Europe is attributed. “The report ends with the final conclusion, stating: "A potential assassin cannot be identified more clearly".

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External links[]

• Karl Nehammer on the Austrian Parliament website

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