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Pyrotechnic items and burning items in favorites thrown at officials who had come for property damage. Calls from “Allahu Akbar” were also said to have been heard.
13.16 clock, January 1, 2021
On New Years Eve, otherwise fairly quiet, things went Vienna Favorites savage to: After a series of material damage by pyrotechnic objects in the area around Reumannplatz, the police moved to a large-scale operation. The mob fired at the officials with rockets or firecrackers, there were numerous temporary arrests. Numerous “Allahu Akbar” -Rufe should have been heard.
As the APA learned, too burning objects thrown at the police. The pyrotechnic objects, which were also used against the officers, are said to have twice the explosive power of an active hand grenade.
The perpetrators fled, but two suspects, a 16-year-old Austrian and a 21-year-old Syrian, were detained in a house. In an apartment in the building, the police met with other men who were said to have been involved in the riot. A 21-year-old is said to have broken into a jewelry box in the course of the fireworks incidents. Unlike the other suspects, he remained in police custody. The investigation continues.
“The constant action of the police put an end to the events, prevented new crimes and arrested numerous suspects. There is absolutely no understanding of this criminal behavior and surveys on the course of events and further investigations of the criminals continue constantly ”, so Police Chairman Gerhard Pürstl.
In August there were serious riots between Kurdish and Turkish nationalist protesters in Favoriten. The incidents put the relationship between Vienna and Ankara to the test. Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) accused Turkey of “sowing unrest”.
