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After the incident, the rioters fled unrecognized in different directions.
© APA (Subject)
It is said that 30 youths broke into the Catholic Church of St. Anton von Padua in Vienna-Favoriten on Thursday night and rioted there. The constitutional protection determined.
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.
Group of Turkish teenagers filmed by surveillance camera
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.
Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) condemned the incidents: “In Austria we will never let our right to exercise our religion be destroyed and we will protect the Christian community with all our might,” Nehammer said in the “Kurier”. He had instructed the Director General of Public Security to sensitize all police stations and to monitor public space more intensively, especially in the Favoriten hotspot.
FPÖ-Haimbuchner locates “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.
Increased police checks in favorites
After the incident, 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.
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