Parallel to the Opera Redoubt, the academic ball will also take place on Saturday in Graz, just a few hundred meters away. The meeting place of many brotherhood members is increasingly visible as a result of current political events. In the afternoon there are already demonstrations and there is a major police action.
The “offensive against the right -wing Graz” – according to his own statements “an impartial alliance of youth organizations, cultural and art initiatives, political groups and individuals” – has registered a protest march. This starts shortly before 5.30 pm on the Mariahilferplatz and leads via Lendkai to the Erzherzog-Johann-Brücke, then via Neutorgasse and Joanneumring and Herrengasse to the central square (arrival around 5.45 pm). That is why the tram lines cannot ride 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 during this period.
500 people were registered for the demonstration, according to the first estimates, more people would have come. The messages that have been heard most often so far are “kick out” and “no to the FPö, no against exclusion”. The police use speakers to warn people to be careful.
The police have set a parking ban in the vicinity of the Graz Congress from 4 p.m. Parts of the Albrecht, Schmied and Landhausgasse have been hit. The Stiermarken police emphasize that numerous emergency services must guarantee both the trouble -free course of the event and the fundamental right to freedom of meeting. The center of Graz is currently full of police officers and police cars.
FPö partial state not on the academic ball
Incidentally: the FPö government team is not represented on the academic ball itself. State Governor Mario Kunasek is at the Fire Department in Trofaiach, just like club chairman Marco Triller, State Council Hannes Amesbauer at the Opernredoute and his colleague Stefan Hermann at the Red Crossbal in Lieboch. State councilor Claudia Holzer for transport and chairman of the Gerald Deutschmann State Parliament are also not expected.
Source: Krone
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