2023-09-17 14:22:13
After Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) considered or promised extraordinary controls at the borders with Schengen partner Italy due to the situation in Lampedusa, Tyrol’s FPÖ leader Markus Abwerzger is calling for immediate controls at the Brenner Pass. “The so-called ‘border management’ there has to be ramped up. It has to be controlled. Increased controls on the trains are also needed. No way instead of highway on the Brenner,” said Abwerzger to the APA.
However, the veiled search on the Austrian-Italian border that Nehammer ventilated would not be enough, explained Abwerzger. For the time being, there should be no “complete controls” at the Brenner Pass, in the sense that every car is examined, but things must “move towards border controls,” demanded the Tyrolean FPÖ state party chairman and gave another example: “Germany is also leading at the Walserberg We’ve been carrying out border controls for years.” There is constant talk that “border management” at the Brenner border can be ramped up “at the push of a button” – now this can be proven, says Abwerzger. The 8.6 million euro “Border Management Center” under construction on the Brenner Pass is scheduled to be completed in the fall. So far we have worked with a “container solution”.
As the Ministry of the Interior announced to the APA on Sunday, controls are currently taking place in the area near the border with Italy. “These controls in the area near the border can immediately be developed into border controls.” In concrete terms, this means that border area controls – also commonly referred to as veil manhunts – would be carried out in Carinthia and Tyrol with Italy. Specially trained police officers in uniform and in civilian clothes would carry out checks at critical points, the broadcast continued. The focus of the measures would be on measures against the smuggling mafia.
As a further step, border point controls at the state border are possible. Such measures were already taken in September and October of the previous year on the border with Slovakia and the Czech Republic. It was also said that no migrants were currently being accepted by Italy or other EU countries, as “not a single contract at EU level” provides for this and Austria has “always spoken out against redistribution within the EU”. Currently, illegal migrants are staying longer in Italy, as France and Spain are the destination countries for many, the ministry said in a statement.
Abwerzger further said that it can be assumed that the situation in Lampedusa will “deteriorate dramatically” in the coming days. According to the Tyrolean FPÖ chairman, people would be allowed onto the mainland and then probably make their way north: “It’s just a matter of time.” First and foremost, it’s just young men. Immediate “pushbacks” and a “sea closure like in Australia” are needed in Lampedusa. The boats or ships would have to be sent back to where they came from. After all, it is technically easy to determine where they originally came from, emphasized Abwerzger. Italy should not be left in the lurch, but Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government is also “challenged”.
Abwerzger also saw the black and red Tyrolean state government as having a duty. Governor Anton Mattle (ÖVP) must “wake up from his lethargy” and put pressure on his party friends in Vienna regarding border controls. And the SPÖ deputy governor Georg Dornauer, who is responsible for the refugee system in the country, is facing the “moose test”: “Instead of constantly worrying about finding a place to stay for migrants, he can now prove how serious he actually is about his propagated ‘restrictive migration policy’ means.”
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