Violence Outbreak – Shards, Tears & Anger After Halloween Battle

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There is a state of shock after the wild riots on All Saints’ Night, especially in Linz: Hundreds of reports and thousands of euros in material damage must have consequences for the perpetrators.

Desert scenes such as those from a war zone played out across the country on All Saints’ Night. Striking: the riots in the center of Linz. Some 200 youths raged from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m., fireworks and glass bottles were thrown at passers-by as well as the 170 police officers who intervened, who were on duty with a large contingent including the Cobra task force. On Tuesday evening, 20 to 30 young people reunited, but they quickly fled from the police.

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Particularly frightening: the teenagers had arranged an excess of violence via the Internet. On TikTok they wrote that it would be like in the movie “Athena”. This Netflix production follows a street war between police and youth gangs in a French slum. In the end, there were 130 advertisements and nine arrests in Linz – see the interview below.

hard consequences
It is already clear that the majority of rioters – young men from Chechnya, Syria and Afghanistan – in our country are under the cloak of vulnerability. But it should be really tight for them right now. Interior Minister Gerhard Karner announced in an interview with the “Krone” the full strictness of the law. A security summit is immediately convened and the asylum refusal procedure begins, according to the conclusion. For many victims of the riots, this proposal does not go far enough. Long prison sentences are demanded in private conversations.

No place for violence
Upper Austrian politicians also condemned the riots. Upper Austria remains resolutely on the side of public order and therefore on the side of the police, emphasized Governor Thomas Stelzer. For example, it is all the more necessary, as proposed in the program of the Upper Austrian government, to tighten the penalties for attacks on police officers.

Mayor Klaus Luger (SPÖ) of Linz emphasizes: “For me, such developments must be contained from the start by all police and legal means. In Linz there is zero tolerance for violent people, whatever their motives!” A deputy, Martin Hajart, says there is “no place for such aggression” in Linz. And the FPÖ leader says: “There should be no indulgence or reconciliation towards such violence.”

“It has never happened in Linz before”
The violence of the riots also surprised police manager Michael Hubmann, he explains in an interview with Krone.

Crown: Mr. Hubmann, you were the police operations manager. How bad was it?
Michael Hubmann:
I’ve often been where things happened, most recently at Sturm’s Europa League game against Feyenoord Rotterdam. But I’ve never experienced anything like that night in Linz.

It started at 9pm.
At first we were able to calm the situation. Then it fluctuated more and more at night. In the end we had to clear the area between the Taubenmarkt and the Mozartkreuzung. The branch of a fast food restaurant on Taubenmarkt also had to be evacuated. Shortly after 11pm we had to shut down the overhead tram lines in the area of ​​the country road. There was a risk that they would be so damaged by fireworks that they could have fallen to the ground. That would have been an immediate threat to life.

How could you slow down the rioters?
We then surrounded them between the Karmelitenkirche and the Mozartkreuzung. They had to lie down first and then sit down. Only then can we control them

Source: Krone

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