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2 years have passed since the “Ibiza videos” triggered the dramatic end of the coalition government and with it the fall from grace of one of Austria’s most controversial politicians, Heinz-Christian Strache. It was 6 p.m. on May 17, 2019, when video footage that would change the course of Austrian history hit the internet. Stunned journalists sat mesmerized before their computers that evening, barely able to believe their eyes. A visibly intoxicated and chain-smoking HC Strache — Austrian vice-chancellor and head of the fa... more