The devil's advocate

Right to defense even after terrorist attack

Ahmad G. during his arrest - in the background an IS flag that was seized from him.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/BMI, SVS News Agency)

The wounds of the terrorist attack in the middle of Villach are still fresh and deep. The fact that the Syrian Ahmad G. is now getting a lawyer at taxpayers' expense is causing a lot of criticism - but his legal aid is just one of many cases: from the banker to Jack Unterweger to the child murderer.

A dead boy who is being buried today, five people, some of them seriously injured, including two teenagers: This is the result of the devastating knife attack in Villach a week ago. The news that Ahmad G. must now be provided with a lawyer free of charge in the trial for murder with a terrorist background is causing many angry reactions - does that have to be the case?