Entry bans: Victim protection wants relief – salzburg.ORF.at
People who have been banned from entering or approaching must take part in a repeated six-hour prevention consultation. You must report to the counseling center within five days of the official notification in order to arrange an initial personal appointment. In Salzburg, “Jugend am Werk” and the Catholic Action carry out violence prevention together.
In the case of Piesendorf, no replacement of the auxiliary equipment
The 41-year-old, who is said to have stabbed his ex-wife in Piesendorf on Friday, was in contact with Jugend am Werk because of his expulsion in mid-April. His victim reported him. The 41-year-old “had an initial interview at the advice center in Zell am See on May 4th,” said Jugend-am-Werk managing director Uwe Höfferer on Monday.
The consultant then suggested a security police case conference on the 41-year-old and had already discussed it with the police. According to Höfferer, this case conference, in which a complete exchange of data between all participating institutions and authorities was possible, never took place: “An exchange with the victim protection institutions did not take place because no declaration of consent could be obtained from the perpetrator.” The police could, however, too set up a case conference at any time without an external suggestion.
Data exchange currently “only if the endangering party agrees”
For victim protection-oriented perpetrator work, it is absolutely essential that the victim protection facilities and the perpetrator work facilities are allowed to network on a case-by-case basis, Höfferer demands: “This is the only way to get a complete picture of the likely risk situation. The problem with the current law is that the institutions are only allowed to exchange information if the endangering party agrees to the data exchange,” criticized the managing director. The risk of high falls is excluded from this – in all other cases one is dependent on the good will of the perpetrator.
In addition, “it would help a lot for our specific work if the system of security police case conferences went faster and if we had a specific contact person in the Salzburg police who only works for these security police case conferences,” emphasized Höfferer ORF. “We currently have different contacts depending on the district. That costs time, clarity and thus victim protection.”
What are the directions?
Often hoping for a “good” solution right up to the end
856 entry bans were issued in Salzburg last year. In the run-up to the alleged murder in Piesendorf, the 30-year-old victim indicated that she had been threatened, followed and seriously injured by her ex-husband. Therefore, the woman had also obtained a contact ban, which she had lifted the day before the bloody deed.
Christina Riezler from the Salzburg Violence Protection Center says about the case: “It would be so nice if you could turn a screw and then you would prevent these terrible acts. Unfortunately, that’s not the case.” Bans from entering and temporary injunctions would have an effect, “but then, of course, it just comes down to the fact that these are relationships. These are people who were married, who are married in a couple relationship – and you always have this hope right to the end that you can somehow talk it out politely with the other person when it comes to the separation. Unfortunately, that’s not possible when it comes to violence.”
Violence begins with humiliation and control behavior
It is important for society to recognize that violence – even at the smallest level – is not okay, emphasizes Riezler: “It starts with insults, with humiliation, with control behavior – i.e. wherever men believe: ‘My Partner is somehow my property, my property and I decide what happens. I choose when to break up, I choose what you have to do.’ And of course it would be good if you started much earlier and not only when it is too late and this cycle of violence is already very far advanced.