After the night of riots in Linz last fall, according to information from “Krone”, one of the ringleaders (20) was flown out. It is a Spanish citizen who came to Austria in 2016.
The Halloween riots in Linz last year shocked Austria. Dozens of young rioters, often with a migration background, fought a real street fight with the police. One of the leaders arrested: a 19-year-old Spaniard at the time of the crime, who came to Austria in 2016 and was not doing regular work.
He was carrying 160 firecrackers
The young man was convicted by the court of aggravated community violence and aggravated assault. The young man is said to have thrown rockets and stones at officials as an accused Syrian (“throwing fireworks is normal in my homeland”). At his arrest, 160 firecrackers of the highest danger category were also secured.
After the now 20-year-old had served his sentence, he took a deportation flight from Vienna-Schwechat to his hometown of Madrid on Monday morning. In addition to numerous pending criminal cases, there are also other asylum refusal procedures…
“Organized Hate Event”
There had been violent riots in Linz both on Halloween and the night after. Both times, young people set off fireworks and threw them at passersby. A total of 129 adolescents and young adults were reported. By 46, a procedure for deprivation of protection status was initiated.
After the riots, Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) had already stated that he wanted to “take full advantage of the harshness of the law”. All residence permits of third-country nationals would also be checked, it was said at the time. Karner called the attacks an “organized hate event”.
Source: Krone
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