And this long-kept testimony from the pollster to prosecutors is a blast:
Firstly, leg scraper relieves Sebastian Kurz of the ongoing investigation into the so-called “leg scraper tool” advertisement cause: she emphasizes that she never spoke to the ex-chancellor, only saw him once “passing by”. Constructing an indictment against Kurz from this would be quite difficult, even for the highly imaginative WKStA.
Secondly, she also relieves Sebastian Kurz’s closest employees, and she also explains exactly how these survey tools were created – for media employees, Beinschab tells nothing surprising, attaching questions to a survey that is planned anyway is an absolutely normal process.
Thirdly, the opinion pollster questioned by the WKStA puts a massive burden on the SPÖ and also the management of a Viennese free newspaper close to the SPÖ. At the request of the SPÖ federal management, poll results were doctored, i.e. falsified – and thus the readers of this free newspaper were misled about the true popularity of the Austrians with the SPÖ. Neither the SPÖ federal party leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner nor the management of the incriminated newspaper came up with these serious allegations, which further damage the credibility of all media and all pollsters, no explanation.
And another point is very interesting: Beinschab said that ex-minister Sophie Karmasin also wanted to earn money from newspaper orders while she was still minister – whether this is true has not yet been proven. The presumption of innocence applies to Karmasin.
The fact that there is still an investigation against Sebastian Kurz in this case, although the WKStA must have been clear for four months that the alleged indictment witness is rather a defense witness for the ex-ÖVP boss, can only be seen as a new major judicial scandal The judiciary has known for four months that Kurz will be exonerated – and let the whole of Austria believe that I had not changed anything in this procedure.
The Green Minister of Justice is now under even more pressure after her embarrassing plagiarism scandal: Alma Zadic will have to answer why she allowed the reputation of an ÖVP politician and young father to be damaged for another four months.
Former “Presse” editor-in-chief Andreas Unterberger therefore does not shy away from criticizing the Austrian judiciary in his blog: “If the WKStA were an organization that still had anything to do with law and decency and not one that protected a radical left-wing plagiarism If the Minister of Justice had been equipped with tremendous power, the case against Sebastian Kurz would have been dropped a few weeks ago. And at the same time investigations against the SPÖ and the former ÖVP minister Sophie Karmasin would have been launched.”
