Girls in Freistadt, Upper Austria, were said to have been offended by the abbreviation ‘KTM’ – they thought it stood for ‘headscarf mafia’. Now there are new details about the incident at the vocational school in the Mühlviertel in response to a question from the Minister of the Interior.
According to the police, it went like this: Two students from the Freistadt vocational school were talking about KTM motorcycles in the summer. When two girls of Turkish descent passed by, they thought the three-letter abbreviation meant the insult ‘headscarf mafia’. A cousin of the girls and two friends are said to have intimidated the vocational students several times. This is stated in an answer to a question from Interior Minister Gerhard Karner to the FPÖ.
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The request was prompted by a ‘Krone’ report that caused much excitement. In a conversation with police officers, Karner’s response continued, the two vocational students stated that there was never a knife involved and that they had not felt threatened. Only a little later the Linz public prosecutor decided not to start an investigation.
107 suspected of dangerous threats
The FPÖ also asked how many dangerous threats against Turkish citizens are registered annually. In Upper Austria there were 107 suspects last year (so not actually convicted). Only in Vienna were there more, with 171 incidents. FP MP Peter Handlos said: “These are not isolated cases, but rather a structural problem.”
Source: Krone
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