Seven calls in the early morning of the holiday, they are loyal and enthusiastic eXXpress readers – business people, politicians and a scientist: “Don’t be intimidated. Bravo that you uncover all of this. ” Or: “It’s amazing how much hatred people react to your reporting – stay strong.” And an eXXpress fan says: “What is this lying about you? You have reported correctly – everyone can read that. The left networks are obviously nervous. “
In fact, our report on the new details on the spectacular political crime that cost Sebastian Kurz the office of Chancellor and which is presumably also intended to change domestic political opinion led to a brutal attack by aggressive posters: This is what statements on Twitter or Facebook are like deliberately lied that the eXXpress had published “the places of residence” of a senior public prosecutor and the “Falter” editor-in-chief. The fact is: only the distance between their houses – somewhere in Lower Austria – was given (only 1500 meters).
And another untruth is told by people who can all be assigned to a well-known network: In the current political scandal, the eXXpress would have “put detectives on journalists”. Rather, it is true: a detective agency was asked whether this company could recommend experts who could look at the files sent in this chat scandal.
After all, it is about the suspicion of abuse of office, the suspicion of inciting the abuse of office and the suspicion of deliberately planning a change of government in an undemocratic way with absolutely arbitrarily selected chats. A similar approach is known to all Austrians from the Ibiza video production in May 2019.
The nerves of the editor-in-chief of the Wiener Wochenblatt “Falter” should be particularly bright. Which is understandable: Florian Klenk made several mistakes, which eXXpress and the Salzburg plagiarism hunter Stefan Weber and Prof. Gert Schmidt from the investigation platform eu-infothek.com documented in great detail.
Mistake 1: Florian Klenk has proven to be sending highly secret files to the corruption prosecutor with all real names (!) And all telephone numbers (!) Of the ex-chancellor, the ex-finance minister, the pollster Sabine Beinschab and many other accused on the unsecured chat platform WhatsApp. Other investigative journalists can only shake their head at this – it is extremely uncomfortable for the accused.
Mistake 2: In a chat with an accused lawyer on Twitter, Florian Klenk revealed (out of vanity?) That an act with the “ON (note: ordinal number) 1683 is decisive”.
What Klenk apparently did not know: “1683” is not the number of an act that goes to all of the approximately 50 lawyers of the accused, but the very specific numbering of the order of the house search for the private address of the chancellor adviser Stefan Steiner. And only that.
Klenk thus got several people into trouble: If the “Falter” boss calls “1683”, the probability is very high that this paper could have been passed on by one of the people who met Stefan Steiner early in the morning on October 6th during the raid was present. The following are possible: Steiner, Steiner’s family, Steiner’s ÖVP lawyer, the public prosecutor and only a few members of the executive branch. So the circle is small. Interesting: Klenk deleted this Twitter posting with “1683” just a few minutes after it was published. . .
Mistake 3: When the eXXpress reported that Klenk lives only 1,500 meters away from that public prosecutor in a Lower Austrian municipality, the “Falter” co-owner raged and accused the eXXpress of having given away the address. Which of course is not true and can be verified by anyone using our reports.
Presumably, however, Twitter users then informed the “Falter” editorial team that the outrage would not quite fit: Klenk’s address was officially to be found in the imprint of the “Falter”. A few minutes later this entry was also deleted. . .
Mistake 4: Instead of admitting his mistake 1, sending highly explosive judicial files via WhatsApp, Florian Klenk also attacked the well-known plagiarism hunter Stefan Weber. Klenk’s followers then even accused Weber of being “close to the ÖVP”, etc., although his expertise only recently ensured that an ÖVP minister had to resign – Weber is considered serious and non-party throughout Austria. Stefan Weber did not put up with the attacks: He specifically accused Klenk of “constructed realities and invented enemy images”.
With what brutality and with what tricks and lies to distract from the mistakes of an aggressively working left-wing journalist, how everyone is now attacked who briefly ask questions and research the cause shows: Apparently there is still a political crime here pretty much to uncover.
The eXXpress stays tuned – we won’t be intimidated.
