The 26-year-old activist Anja Windl will be interrogated by the immigration authorities in Leoben on Thursday after her participation in the climate protest ‘Last Generation’. You are threatened with a residence ban. The German was optimistic in advance: “I don’t think anything will come of it,” she said (see video above).
Before her appointment at the Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum (BFA), the climate activist explained to Puls 24 that the authority could not do much for her. The 26-year-old sees no reason to end his stay: “I don’t have any legally binding punishment.” She also meets the conditions for residence in Austria in other respects, as she is in training, has valid health insurance and a regular income.
Activist and lawyer absolutely want to fight back
“Actually, they can’t do much for me,” emphasized Anja Windl. She pointed out that the authority could look for “an excuse” to end her stay: “They say health insurance doesn’t quite fit”. The activist and her lawyer had already emphasized on Wednesday that they wanted to defend themselves against the actions of the authorities. Your administrative fines are not even final, said the 26-year-old, who studies in Klagenfurt and lives in Graz.
“I think if you want to prevent our protests, it would make more sense to push for serious climate protection and not punish those who work to maintain all of our livelihoods,” Windl stressed in Leoben. In principle, the authority can issue a residence ban against an EU citizen if public safety is jeopardized by her behaviour.
Risk of spilled oil?
According to the activist, the authorities could have a specific form of protest in mind: earlier this year, the climate activist spilled oil on the distribution circuit in Vienna. At that time, an ad was placed on suspicion of endangering physical safety. Windel himself suspects that the authorities could see a legitimation for an eviction here.
However, so far no final punishment has been handed out to the climate activist, not even for purely administrative violations. That would not be sufficient grounds for expulsion, he stressed European lawyer Walter Obwexer of the University of Innsbruck, in the Ö1 “Morgenjournal”.
“Conviction Isn’t Enough”
That would require “first a serious crime, such as very serious bodily harm or murder or robbery, and then the risk of another crime being committed,” Obwexer said. A final conviction for a serious offense without the risk of committing another offense “is also not sufficient for deportation”, the lawyer confirmed.
Source: Krone
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