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According to the report on Saturday by the Austrian news agency APA, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer, in response to the migrants’ misfortune in Vienna, claimed that such actions would not be tolerated by those who belong to “parallel societies.” Origo was the first in the Hungarian media to report that immigrants shouting at Allahu Akbar vandalized the center of the Austrian capital on New Year’s Eve.
They promise tough action
“We will not tolerate such acts,” stressed Karl Nehammer in his statement on Sunday, adding that what happened were “signs of profoundly undemocratic behavior without any solidarity.” Anyone who is unable to identify with our social values and tries to alter them faces legal consequences.– so the Minister of the Interior.
Susanne Raab, Minister without Portfolio for Integration Affairs, told APA she was deeply moved by the photos taken in the Favoriten neighborhood on New Year’s Eve, which
they again bear witness to the danger of parallel societies.
The Interior Minister of the People’s Party also said that Vienna police were launching a wide-ranging investigation into the matter.
Vienna Police Chief Gerhard Pürstl said in this connection that special units in uniform and plainclothes detectives were already patrolling and conducting inspections in the district.
Pürstl is also expected to discuss with the Vienna city administration the security situation regarding the integration of immigrants and police policy in this regard.
They went crazy on New Years Eve
As Origo reported for the first time, in the Favoriten district of Reumann square, in addition to causing various damage with pyrotechnic devices, reporters set fire to a police car, spilled flammable liquid on a pine tree and threw pyrotechnic devices at the police station. incoming.
The police produced nine people, including young Syrians, Austrians and Iraqis. A 21-year-old Syrian man who wanted to break into a jewelry store with a trash can was placed on remand. Nehammer and Raab thanked the police for their action.
Riots are on the agenda
As early as August, there were clashes between Kurdish nationalist protesters and Turkish immigrants in Favoriten, straining Turkish-Austrian relations. Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz accused Ankara of inciting the fight.
The Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) has criticized Social Democratic Mayor Michael Ludwig for what just happened, who said he has failed to achieve integration. Former Viennese Deputy Mayor Dominik Nepp, who represents the far-right Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ), said he was “shocked by mobs of Islamist criminal immigrants” and accused the Interior Minister of inaction since the beginning of the riots in June 2020.
Norbert Hofer, head of the FPÖ, demanded the expulsion of the rioters and compensation for the damage caused to the Austrian nationals.
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