"We will not stop deportations to Afghanistan and we will not relax the asylum law," Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Tuesday.
Kurz made his statement following the arrest of two Afghan men suspected of raping and murdering a 13-year-old girl who was found over the weekend.
The chancellor expressed his shock at the incident and his deepest sympathy to the family. He stated that such a "barbaric crime cannot be put on the agenda, the perpetrators should not be supported under the guise of false tolerance, but should be deported from the country as soon as possible." He added that the law will act as strictly as possible against the perpetrators.
Sebastian Kurz, Austrian chancellor/Source: oznagni.hu/Illustráció
The little girl's body was found leaning against a tree in Vienna's 22nd district on Saturday morning. Based on witness statements, the police on Monday detained an 18-year-old Afghan man who arrived in Austria in 2015 and whose right to asylum was revoked in 2017 due to the commission of various crimes, but they could not deport him because he was still a minor.
Their interrogation began. The police do not rule out the involvement of other accomplices, but due to the ongoing investigation, they did not provide any other information.
Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said at a press conference on Tuesday that "those who seek and find asylum in Austria must comply with the law, and if they do not do so, they must be expelled from the country immediately."
The proposal of the journalist of the ORF public television - that "the state does not care enough about the integration of severely traumatized refugees" - was firmly rejected by the Minister of the Interior . There is no excuse for violating the laws of the host country or committing violent acts, said the head of the ministry.
Source: demokrata.hu/MTI
