Durant cette audition, M. Stadler a maintenu que les allégations portées contre lui étaient fausses et que les poursuites résultaient d'une campagne de dénigrement politique, déclenchée notamment par la publication d'un livre du premier magistrat du parquet de Vienne.
In the course of his hearing in the Committee on Legal Affairs, Ewald Stadler maintained that the allegations were untrue and the prosecution was the result of a political campaign, in particular as it had been initiated on the basis of the publication of a book by the Head of the Vienna Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office.