The Austrian State Security Service has classified the “Last Generation” in terms of its radicalism. The verdict is similar to that from Germany.
Vienna – With their protests, the climate group “Last Generation” is offending many people. The police union spoke of “increasing fanaticism” in connection with the activist group, which was causing “great concern”. With their campaigns for greater climate protection, the climate stickers are particularly annoying numerous drivers. Clashes between activists and road users regularly occur. The climate group is also active in Austria. After an extremism check, the state security agency came to a clear conclusion.
Austria: State Security does not classify “Last Generation” as “extremist”
The Directorate of State Security and Intelligence (DSN) announced that the climate group was “clearly not extremist” and “absolutely transparent”. That’s what he reported ORF and referred to statements made by an investigator in a background interview with the news agency APA announced. There is currently no threat from the “last generation”. The public would view the group as more extremist than is actually the case, the investigator emphasized.
“Danger only arises when people from the group become radicalized or cooperate with extremist groups,” he said The standard the DSN. “But we don’t see that at the moment.” The climate group in Austria is not as “radical as other extremist groups known to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which try to achieve their goals through the use of violence,” it continued.
Climate group “Last Generation” in Germany “one step further”
“The climate activists in Germany, on the other hand, are already one step further,” said the DSN expert about the German group. The gas conference in March in Vienna, where German activists supported Austrian activists, was cited as an example. The willingness to use violence was recognized there. Just a few months ago, an audit by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution revealed that the “Last Generation” was not classified as an extremist group.
Previously, the general secretary of the right-wing populist FPÖ, Christian Hafenecker, criticized the allegedly “trivializing approach to left-wing extremism in Austria” and listed the actions of the “last generation”. The standard continued writing. How APA reported that the left-wing scene in Austria is currently “very quiet” overall. (vk)
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