Unknown persons set fire to the highly controversial refugee district currently under construction on Lunzerstrasse in Linz on Saturday evening. Mayor Klaus Luger condemned the attack and was outraged.
The trees are gone, the foundation has been poured and the partly new, partly used walls have already been completed. The district for 48 migrants in the Kleinmünchen district, which is not liked by the politicians of the city of Linz – in the form of the SPÖ and FPÖ in rare unity – quickly took shape on Saturday. An excavator operator was also present during the day. But in the evening hours there was suddenly a fire on the construction site.
“Against all violence”
According to initial information, the police certainly assume arson. “Even if the perpetrators and their motives are still unknown, it can be assumed that there is a connection with the reception of asylum seekers in Lunzerstrasse,” said the mayor of Linz, Klaus Luger. “I unequivocally oppose any radicalization and violence in our city, no matter who commits it!”
„Emotionalization of the subject of asylum“
For the city manager of Linz, who has recently spoken out in several statements against further refugee stays in Linz because the capital meets its admission requirements above average compared to other districts, the fire attack shows one thing very clearly: “After years of pandemic and in the in the midst of multiple crises, the question of asylum is more emotional than ever, which is why the federal government and especially the state government ÖVP-FPÖ are all the more called upon to finally treat new refugee neighborhoods with care and, above all, to enter into dialogue with the local population,” says Luger.
Resolution was not heard
The resolution announced by FP security spokesman Michael Raml at the state and federal level to “renounce the construction and commissioning of the district on Lunzerstraße” was not heard. In a few weeks, the wooden frame house at the “taxed” address, which will be operated by the Samaritan Association, should be ready for occupancy.
The address Lunzerstrasse is known to many, since until 2001 there was a mass shelter for refugees here. Up to 1500 people were housed in a total of seven apartment blocks. Since the wave of refugees in 2015 at the latest, people in Upper Austria have abandoned the philosophy of creating as central and large neighborhoods as possible.
Source: Krone
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