Franz Schabhüttl is not one to mince words. The Lower Austrian (69) was head of the Traiskirchen refugee camp for 13 years. He speaks carefully, but clearly – about problems in the asylum system that no one dares to address.
Except for a handful of FPÖler: “But liberal statements won’t help you at the beer table!” On the contrary. Schabhüttl is strict with left and right institutions – “everyone lied for their own purposes,” he says. After the EU summit on the sensitive issue of migration and border control, the “Krone” asked him to analyze the “state of the nation”. Why people who have no chance of a right to stay in Austria (can) still return to their homeland – that makes Schabhüttl smile. “Because there are tricks that each individual is taught beforehand,” he says. By smugglers, but also by NGOs.
The tricks of the asylum seekers
These “tricks” are actually very simple: come up with a new identity and not show any documents. Wrong name, wrong country of origin, wrong age. And the alleged country of origin blocks and refuses a return trip. About 85 percent of asylum seekers travel without papers, says the former top official of the Ministry of the Interior.
“We know that a large proportion of those who come to us under the guise of asylum are in fact on the run from the police in their home countries. So such people are neither an asset to society nor to the economy if they are taken back.” 90 percent of those who come are “young men from the lowest social strata who travel alone. Illiterates, of which there are only in the rarest cases who would pass the primary school diploma with us.
From social benefits to lots of lures
Well-integrated refugees – of course they exist. However, it is not the masses, says Schabhüttl. “Unfortunately!” But he does not blame them: “Asylum seekers do not come to Austria on their own to lie in a hammock, they are driven in by us. Because of our social benefits.”
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“It’s just a lure. In basic care you get everything you need to live on in kind, then another 40 euros pocket money – and now a contribution towards the cost of living. -old. “We submit to those who come to us and yet do not understand us. We are going to tell the Austrians what you can say – and what not.”
Positive approach from Nehammer
For Franz Schabhüttl, the compromise at the most recent EU summit on migration policy comes late, but better than never: “What Nehammer achieved at the EU summit – you have to give him that – is a positive approach. Not a populist, for the first time, actually something catchy in it.’ But a change in the precarious refugee situation will take time – ‘as long as the course of the negative development’.
Source: Krone
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