The conditions in which refugees lived in Vienna were unacceptable: they rented an abandoned, poorly renovated former AMS office building on Dresdnerstrasse. The landlord of the illegal accommodation is being tried for serious commercial fraud. The Iraqi himself fled to Austria in 2014 and his asylum application was rejected.
The now accused landlord, a 29-year-old Iraqi, demanded exorbitant rents of around 1,000 euros per unit for the former offices, which were illegally and extremely provisionally converted into “apartments”. “He showed people that they could rent the apartments long-term, even though the building was not intended for residential purposes,” the prosecutor said when opening the trial at the Vienna Regional Court. He did not elaborate on the suffering of the people who were housed there. But the fact that the defendant collected outrageous commissions, deposits and rents from the residents.
Source: Krone
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