“Something like that has no place with us,” said Governor Thomas Stelzer (VP) summing up the situation after the riots on Halloween night. 200 rioters, the vast majority of them young men from Syria and Afghanistan, fought an hour-long street battle with the police. They threw firecrackers, bottles and stones at passers-by and officials.
Stelzer will now convene the State Security Council for Friday. The country and the police would have to act with “hardness and consistency”. It cannot be that “people who come to us clearly oppose our society,” says Stelzer. The possibilities of deportation would have to be checked and also implemented.
“Nothing lost in our homeland”
“People who behave like this have no place in our homeland,” says Deputy Governor Manfred Haimbuchner (FP). After what happened at the beginning of the week, one cannot “go back to business as usual”.
Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (VP) held a security summit on Tuesday: the events are now to be investigated together with the state police, the city police command and Linz Mayor Klaus Luger (SP). Mayor Luger calls for the involvement of external experts.
Source: Nachrichten
