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In this context, Blimlinger recalled that the first Victims' Welfare Act – passed in 1945 – only applied to resistance fighters. Jews were only included in 1947, other victim groups such as Roma and Sinti or people with disabilities much later. A lasting downer for her is that the law still distinguishes between active victims such as resistance fighters and passive victims, which she considers discrimination.
Both FPÖ MP Ragger and ÖVP MP Grünberg pointed out that there are no analogous restrictions in other victims' laws such as the Vaccine Damage Act or the Crime Victims Act with regard to unpaid prison sentences. For Grünberg, it is also about historical justice and fighting against historical revisionism. Ragger spoke of an important step towards coming to terms with the past.
NEOS MEP Fiedler drew a line to the topic of democracy, regretting that "almost half of the population" did not make use of their right to vote in the EU elections.
