2023-10-08 07:04:00
The increased protection was ordered and initiated hours after the start of the major attack by militant, Islamist Palestinians from the Gaza Strip on Israel on Saturday morning, the Interior Ministry said. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution is in close contact with European and Israeli security authorities.
The cooperation between the Austrian security authorities and institutions of the State of Israel on Austrian territory has been tried and tested for decades, it said. There is also “close cooperation with the Israeli religious society in Austria”. In 2023, the Ministry of the Interior supported the security precautions of the Israeli religious society in Austria with a sum of 450,000 euros.
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“The Office for the Protection of the Constitution takes consistent action against every form of Islamist extremism and terrorism. But it also fights those who finance or try to legitimize this terrorism and its terrible acts,” Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) was quoted as saying in a press statement.
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