Ten provisional arrests for criminal offences, 271 identity checks, three injured police officers and a damaged company car: this was the balance sheet of the Vienna police on Sunday surrounding a demonstration by the Identitarian Movement and other right-wing extremist movements on Saturday afternoon.
A few hundred participants marched through the city center on Saturday. Hundreds came to the counter-demonstration and according to the police smaller groups of masked people caused unrest
As in previous years, the Identitarians had called for a march under the motto ‘Remigration’, and this time too there were counter-events by anti-fascist groups and counter-demonstrators. Several hundred police officers had to prevent the two sides from meeting.
Resistance against state power
The police balance sheet on Sunday: Ten people have been provisionally arrested for criminal offences and are accused of resisting state authority. It was about those masked people who threw stones and bottles at officers in Fahnengasse. It is still being determined whether these people expect further charges – for example for property damage and serious bodily harm.
Three police officers injured
A total of 271 identity checks were carried out after protest participants refused to break up a sit-in. 52 arrests were made for violating the Assembly Act. Three police officers were injured and a company car was damaged during the riots.
The Greens and the SPÖ had sharply criticized the event in advance and pointed to personal ties between the Identitarians and the FPÖ. “They want nothing more than the end of our pluralistic democratic society,” warned the spokeswoman for the Green Party’s commemoration policy, Eva Blimlinger.
Source: Krone
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