On Friday evening, Herbert Kickl, the leader of the federal party of the FPÖ, came to a meeting in Kindberg in Styria. The ex-Minister of the Interior gave a speech: “Minister of the Interior Gerhard Karner ruthlessly runs over the citizens. It is a scandal – in times of health emergency – to close down a nursing home and open an asylum seekers’ centre!”
Despite the rain and cold, hundreds of people came to the protest rally. After the “stokers” Hannes Amesbauer and state party chairman Mario Kunasek, Kickl was greeted with applause.
“It’s not evil or right-wing extremist”
He went on a rampage against the federal government and Secretary of the Interior Karner. No one in the FPÖ wants to scare, but they want to listen to people’s concerns: “We will do everything we can to end the asylum madness.” Kickl encouraged the population to defend themselves: “It is not evil or right-wing extremist, it is necessary and logical, an act of self-defense.”
“Run over it” policy in Vienna
Kickl repeatedly put new elections in the hall and sent “greetings from Kindberg” to Vienna: “You will lose it with your overdrive policy.” He underlined that for the population in the Bruck-Mürzzuschlag district next to the former Baumax hall for refugees in Leoben and the accommodation on Semming is sufficient.
Does the limit of 250 still apply?
Governor Christopher Drexler announced Friday morning together with Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (also ÖVP) that a maximum of 250 asylum seekers would come to Unterkunst. However, Kickl fears that this number will not stay the same: “When it is in effect, ordinary beds will soon become bunk beds.”
If he were Chancellor, he would treat the refugees as in Hungary: “If they say asylum a hundred times, I haven’t heard it a hundred times.”
He would no longer accept asylum applications. After almost an hour and a half, the rally was officially over and people quickly retreated to warm rooms.
Source: Krone
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