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The boys were yelling and kicking benches, police spokesman Marco Jammer confirmed in a report in the newspaper “Kurier. As they walked to the altar area, the pastor called the police. So the young men searched the distance. They fled in different directions and, according to the police, they could not be detained. Nobody was hurt in the incident. According to the police spokesman, no one was threatened and nothing was damaged during the kicks.
The “messenger” spoke of about 50 people and that investigators from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution assume that the intruders are a group of young Turks who had previously organized through social networks. The entire incident is said to have been recorded by a surveillance camera, which is now being evaluated.
Reinforced controls
After the attack, 50 law enforcement officers were also assigned to monitor and control the Favoriten hotspot. The Interior Ministry announced on Friday night. In addition, a risk assessment is being carried out by the protection of the constitution and measures will be adapted based on this.
After the terrorist attacks in France, coordination talks between the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Fight Against Terrorism (BVT) and the Cobra command ordered greater protection of French facilities and greater surveillance in public places. , the Ministry of the Interior also announced.
Like Interior Minister Karl Nehammer, Integration Minister Susanne Raab (ÖVP) condemned the attack on the church and welcomed the increased police presence in Favoriten. “Parallel societies are breeding grounds for violence. We have to fight all forms of extremism and Islamism from the beginning to avoid worse things,” Raab said in a broadcast.
Briefly against “false tolerance”
After the attack on a church in Vienna-Favoriten, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) turned against misunderstood tolerance. “All Christians in Austria must be able to exercise their faith freely and safely! We will resolutely continue the fight against political Islam and we will not show any false tolerance here,” Kurz wrote on Twitter.
Greens: “More deradicalization work”
Green integration spokesperson Faika El-Nagashi called the incident “unacceptable and dangerous”. “We must not allow ourselves to be divided by disintegrating groups. For each of these incidents, our response must be: more cohesion, more cooperation, more democracy, more emancipation, more education, more prevention of violence, more plurality,” said El- Nagashi to the APA. The Green Integration spokeswoman said the potential for violence and aggression among youth is fueled by jihadist fundamentalism and nationalist rhetoric. It wants to start with a work of prevention and de-radicalization of violence from all sides to counteract the ideological substructure that is based on Islamist and nationalist principles.
Haimbuchner: “Attack on liberal democracy”
The vice chairman of the federal FPÖ party, Manfred Haimbuchner, spoke in a broadcast about a “highly reprehensible storm in a church.” For Haimbuchner, this is an “attack on our liberal democracy and our free society as a whole. After such an attack, one cannot simply go back to business.” Haimbuchner put the incident in a row with the beheading of a teacher in a Paris suburb and the act of terrorism in a church in Nice, and said this was the third attack on Western European society in a few days.
Manfred Haimbuchner (FPÖ)
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