The spoke unanimously today National Councilor For a comprehensive Informationsoffensive To protect against knockout drops. These are prohibited by law, but trading on the Internet flourishes and related violence increases. K.-O. drops, for example, are secretly added to drinks in order to make women defenseless, rob or rape them.
A five-party application for immediate measures against K.-O. drops was also unanimously accepted during the debate. This was based on an initiative by Rosa Ecker (FPÖ). The joint application calls on Minister of Women Eva-Maria Holzleitner to take up talks with organizers from major events and ticket sales offices in promptly in order to promote measures for effective information about the dangers of K.-O. drops.
A motion for resolutions introduced by the Greens, with which, among other things, the intensification of the violence prevention-preventive boys and men work as well as the immediate and comprehensive expansion of violence atmosphere was requested with the voices of the Greens and FPÖ in the minority.
Women’s Minister Eva-Maria Holzleitner emphasized that everyone has the right to a violent life. Therefore, it should not only be warned before drops of drops, but also clarified that “no perpetrator has an easy game”, says Holzleitner. It was the perpetrators who have to be ashamed and are to blame if they administer K.-O. drops, emphasized the Minister of Women.
K.-O. drops: Places of celebration become crime scenes
Getting the risk of being mixed in the drink is very large. It has to be traded quickly, because K.-O. drops are currently “a trend,” said Rosa Ecker (FPÖ) and asked not to wait with the implementation of the information offensive until the “National Action Plan against Violence on Women” was available. Ricarda Berger (FPÖ) and Tina Angela Berger (FPÖ) also emphasized that speeches alone were not enough that “visible, noticeable measures” are not enough.
Juliane Bogner-Strauß (ÖVP) called the use of knockout drops “absolutely cowardly”. Prevention means protecting life, so there must be a look at this topic and talk about it, says Bogner-Strauß. Elisabeth Scheucher-Pichler (ÖVP) described K.-O. drops as a massive threat to body and soul, the places of celebration into crime scenes. She asked to talk even more about the perpetrators and to expand advice centers.
Sabine Schatz (SPÖ) discussed that incidents with K.-O. drops were no longer an isolated case and that a large number of unreported cases could be assumed. Verena Nussbaum (SPÖ) said that work urgently needed to raise awareness of men. Violence against women is not a “minor offense”. Nussbaum demanded that the social handling of these topics must also change. While many victims still have to fight for their credibility, men’s power would be underestimated and small.
Advertisements about an administration of K.-O. drops have risen dramatically and this is a sign that the problem is getting bigger, said Henrike Brandstötter (NEOS). K. -O. drops are a form of sexual violence, since they are used as instruments to put people – mostly women – out of action and to make defenseless. It is therefore not only an information campaign, but also structures, so that affected people get help. As a central building block for this, Brandstötter cited the expansion of the violence of violence.
Criticism of the orientation of already findable information on the subject of K.-O. drops on the social media accounts of the Minister of Women came from the Greens. Meri Disoski (Greens) spoke of a “one -sided campaign” that would focus on behavioral tips for women instead of taking into account men and thus the wrong message. Agnes Sirkka Prammer (Greens) called for a deterrent from the perpetrators by gaining the risk of being caught and convicted. For this, for example, mandatory protection concepts at events and restaurants are needed, said Prammer. (Continued National Council) Bea
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