The Strache video
The question of whether that night in Ibiza in the summer of 2017 was a "blatant Gschicht", as claimed by Austria's former vice-chancellor and FPÖ leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, can be argued. Finally, at the end of the good six-hour meeting, bottles of white wine, champagne and vodka stood on the tables.
Strache had initially blamed the alcohol on the fact that this evening he offered the supposed niece of a Russian oligarchic state orders against campaign assistance, discussed with her party donations past the Court of Auditors and discussed her entry into the "Kronen" newspaper in order to succeed the FPÖ in the 2017 National Council elections.
After the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" and SPIEGEL had published the video of this deliberate case on May 17, 2019, Strache resigned from office and Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) dissolved the coalition with the FPÖ. The government was at the end, this weekend will be re-elected in Austria.
Perhaps, as Strache later said in interviews, he was secretly mixed with drops in the drinks. If he sees himself on the video, it's clear: "I'm not." Even Strache's wife Philippa wants to have stated: "That was not my husband." Straches Intimus and later FPÖ fraction leader, Johann Gudenus, who had also fallen into the trap, spoke of co-drops, which could have been inflicted on the two men. The opinion of a "forensic private institute" suggest this, said Gudenus. So far, this report has not been published.
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The theory with the co-drops now contradicts a toxicological report of the Institute of Legal Medicine at the Berlin Charité, which was commissioned by one of the men who suspected Strache and Gudenus to have taught them such substances. The director of the institute, Michael Tsokos, and his colleague Sven Hartwig come to the conclusion: both body language and conversation behavior of Strache and Gudenus are inconspicuous, there are no deficiencies observed.
Her gestures are "content-related and not exaggerated", vocabulary and grammar are even "sophisticated". If one had administered Strache and Gudenus one of the common co-medications, it would further, one would have expected an "increasing fatigue to dizziness, drowsiness, consciousness cloudiness" or even "comatose states".
It is therefore simply "impossible", summarize the two forensic scientists that Strache and Gudenus were under the influence of co-funds. At the request of "Süddeutsche Zeitung" and SPIEGEL, the two politicians did not want to comment.
