There have been two temporary arrests and several reports. Two police cars were damaged. The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Combating Terrorism (LVT) is also investigating. The state police headquarters described the projection of a lettering by unknown perpetrators at the end of the meeting at St. Peter in der Au as “particularly strange and not yet there”: “We obey orders: 1945 concentration camp supervisors, 1990 wall guards, 2021 police officers “had to be read. “The police dissociate themselves in the strongest possible way against this form of denigration,” was the reaction on Thursday. In this context, the LVT investigations had been initiated.
100 participants in “Walk”
The “walk” in the market town in western Lower Austria was called via social media. The meeting point was in front of the castle in St. Peter in der Au. According to the state police headquarters, around 100 participants gathered. Ad hoc, five patrols and a group of standby units were dispatched.
As a result, the review of the mask wearing requirement was massively disrupted. After a woman was arrested, other participants in the assembly tried to use force to prevent her from being removed. Officials were surrounded, a patrol car was badly damaged by being kicked.
Subsequently, a meeting participant who had been complained about a few minutes earlier for disregarding the obligation to wear a mask, pushed a police officer aside by force and was also arrested. The man resisted, tried to snatch the baton from an officer and finally tried to bite uniformed men in a company car. Other participants also wanted to prevent the arrest and removal. A second patrol car was also damaged.
Upper Austrians displayed
The arrest of the woman was lifted after the identity was established, according to the police. The same happened with the 51-year-old man from the Steyr-Land district. The Upper Austrian was charged with resisting state authority.
According to the state police department, the majority of the participants “are obviously unfamiliar and, according to their own statements, had already taken part in numerous ‘walks’, especially in nearby Upper Austria aggressive and hostile towards “. The officials could have prevented further escalations “only with great effort and moderate intervention”.
According to the police record, seven people were reported for not wearing a protective mask, and four others for aggressive behavior. Investigations into the damage to the two patrol cars are carried out by the St. Peter in der Au police station.
Source: Nachrichten
