SPÖ Must Pay Kickl 1,500 Euros in Damages
In addition, there are about 6,900 euros in legal costs to be paid. Finally, the Vienna Commercial Court ordered the SPÖ to remove allegations spread via newsletter against Kickl, claiming he had close contacts with a neo-Nazi, with a counter-statement.
FPÖ Leader Herbert Kickl Receives Damages
The proceedings were essentially about the Social Democrats having published a newsletter in which a connection between Kickl and the well-known neo-Nazi was claimed. It was also spread that the then Interior Minister had instigated the raid on the Constitutional Protection (then BVT) to seize a list in the right-wing extremism department that was supposed to prove the connection between the two.
In the judgment available to the APA, it says, among other things: "There can be no doubt - especially considering the plaintiff's former ministerial office and his current role as federal party chairman of the Austrian Freedom Party - that the incriminated statements are capable of impairing or diminishing the plaintiff's reputation or standing in society." The incriminated statements of the defendant constitute "a false defamatory insult to honor."
(APA/Red)
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