A suspect, who allegedy boasted with pals about gang-raping a 13-year-old Austrian schoolgirl who died in the attack, has been arrested.
The teenager’s lifeless body was dumped beside a road next to a tree after reportedly being raped by the four men.
Austrian police say all four were immigrants from Afghanistan and arrested three, with an international manhunt carried out searching for the fourth. The suspect has now been arrested in London.
Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has pledged to continue deporting asylum-seekers back to Afghanistan, after a police officer was attacked at a detention center in Vienna.
“I wish the injured policewoman a speedy recovery,” Kurz said after the attack on Wednesday, as quoted by Austrian media.
It’s unacceptable when people come to us for protection, but neither abide by our laws nor accept our values. Incidents like this show why there must be no stop to deportations to Afghanistan.
The violent death of a young girl has drawn attention to Afghans in Austria. In their communities, young men with refugee experience are in the majority.
The dismay and sensational reporting of the murder of a 13-year-old girl in or near a sheltered apartment in Vienna-Donaustadt has sowed distrust of people from Afghanistan living in Austria. This is not the first time this has happened: in recent years, crimes committed by mostly Afghan men have repeatedly stirred up a stir, raised fear and prompted calls for stricter laws in asylum matters.
These were often sex crimes, rape in parks or other public places. The 13-year-old girl who was killed is also believed to show signs of sexual violence. Do men from this Central Asian country really commit assault more often than others? Is the criminal energy among Afghans particularly pronounced? What do we know about the 45,000 men and women living in Austria, from a country ravaged by terrorist attacks and war for decades?
A look at police crime statistics shows: The vast majority of Afghans in the country are unsuspected in terms of criminal law. In 2020, they were suspected of a total of 4,877 offenses, including every report filed. They accounted for 1.8% of all suspected offenses that year.
There are 4 suspects, 2 still on the run.
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Muslim Youth Austria (MJO) is filing a lawsuit against the country’s controversial “Map of Political Islam,” the group announced on Saturday.
The map, showing the names and location of over 600 mosques and associations in Austria and their possible links abroad, was unveiled on Thursday.
“The publication of all the names, functions and addresses of Muslim and Muslim-affiliated organizations represents an unprecedented crossing of boundaries,” Muslim Youth Austria said.
The Austrian Constitutional Court has ruled that Austria’s ban on the wearing of headscarves in public schools violates the freedom of religion and the freedom of expression and therefore is unconstitutional.
The case highlights the constitutional restraints that European governments face in regulating political Islam and promoting integration.
The headscarf ban, introduced in June 2019 by a governing coalition comprised of the center-right People’s Party (ÖVP) and the populist Freedom Party (FPÖ), was an extension of a groundbreaking October 2017 “Integration Law” that sought to improve the integration of Muslims into Austrian society.
All of Europe mourned the victims of the Islamist terrorist attack in Vienna. Hundreds expressed this mourning by laying candles for the victims on the spot, leaving a veritable sea of lights. But a Turkish woman was probably affected by completely different feelings: she went rioting across the memorial on Sunday and simply kicked over the lovingly placed candles of the mourners!
“…The teenagers said, according to “Today”, that such clips were “perfectly normal” in their culture and that it was a joke. FPÖ chairman Norbert Hofer identified a mockery of the victims of the attack in Vienna and demanded that the people involved and their parents be expelled: “This culture, which the young people talk about, has no place in our country.” Anyone who thinks something like this is funny and “shares such situations as videos in social networks has no place in our society.”
