“Mustafa” and “Ali” – Supreme Court Condemns FPÖ . Social Fraud Clip

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Even Liberal Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache was “not happy” (see archive footage above) with the video, which the FPÖ leadership said “accidentally went online”. Now, three and a half years later, the clip about prevented social fraudsters called “Ali” and “Mustafa” has been convicted by the constitutional court – it discriminates against an ethnic group.

The video was published at the end of 2018 by the PVV via Facebook and YouTube. In it, the misuse of the e-card is illustrated by a fez-wearing character named Ali. Said Ali wants to “get his teeth fixed” in the clip with his cousin Mustafa’s e-card.

However, Ali fails because the e-card is provided with a photo – a requirement of the FPÖ, as was expressly emphasized on Facebook at the time (new e-cards with the insured’s photo have been issued since January 1, 2020 ).

In 2018, the FPÖ campaigned intensively for passport photo e-cards. This is to prevent “those who have not paid insurance from cheating in our social system,” said former Social Affairs Minister Beate Hartinger-Klein (FPÖ), who also appeared on the scene.

The Constitutional Court (VfGH) has now condemned the advertising video as discriminatory and therefore illegal, the “Standard” currently reports. The content is “primarily aimed at accusing a group of ‘strangers’ of socially harmful behavior across the board,” according to the Supreme Court’s reasoning.

Remarkably, even the blue party leadership distanced itself from the video at the time. “I was not happy with the video,” Strache said, while ex-chancellor Sebastian Kurz and some ÖVP ministers described the propaganda film as “unacceptable”. Ex-FPÖ Secretary General Christian Hafenecker claimed the clip only “went online due to a communication problem”. He was also removed from the FPÖ pages at the time.

FPÖ leadership distanced itself, club filed a complaint
The FPÖ club nevertheless turned to the Constitutional Court, complaining about similar rulings from previous bodies and insisting on freedom of expression. This complaint was now dismissed with the VfGH ruling and the case was transferred to the Administrative Court (VwGH) – there it had to be checked that the FPÖ had not been wrongly damaged in any way by the rulings.

Source: Krone

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