According to Dominik Nepp, leader of the Vienna Freedom Party (FPÖ), "violence is apparently spinning faster and faster" and urged a security summit.
Vienna fights with knives. Four stabbings took place in the Austrian capital over the weekend, one of which killed an Iranian. Dominik Nepp, leader of the FPÖ, then convened the security summit.
On the evening of May 8, in the fourth knife attack, a 15-year-old Syrian citizen - along with another unknown assailant - stabbed a 19-year-old man who was with his 20-year-old girlfriend.
As the couple walked to a bus stop, the two young assailants followed them and soon began whistling at the victim and his girlfriend.
When the man confronted them, they started kicking and punching him. The Syrian national then allegedly threatened to kill the victim while brandishing a knife. The suspects fled when the bus arrived.
It was only after the victim and his girlfriend boarded the bus that they noticed the stab wound on the young man's back. The ambulance service was called immediately, which soon arrived on the scene and took the man to hospital, where he is currently recovering.
In the meantime, the police issued a warrant, but only the 15-year-old Syrian was found and arrested, who was also found with the knife used in the crime. The manhunt for the second suspect is still ongoing.
Dominik Nepp, head of Vienna's FPÖ and city councilor, noted on Monday that "Violence in Vienna is apparently accelerating," Exxpress reported Monday.
"It is high time that ÖVP (Austrian People's Party) Interior Minister [Gerhard] Karner acted and ensured a greater police presence in Vienna"
- added Nepp, while he reserved much sharper criticism for SPÖ mayor Michael Ludwig:
"With the undifferentiated admission policy of the SPÖ in Vienna, which Ludwig practiced indefinitely, he opened the door to the influx of illegal and foreign criminals. Instead of finally putting an end to it in Vienna and pressuring the federal government to immediately deport criminals, Ludwig is thinking of relaxing the process of processing citizenship applications. This unacceptable immigration policy is responsible for the fact that Viennese can no longer walk the streets without fear."
Nepp's indignation was joined by the FPÖ's security spokesman, Hannes Amesbauer, who noted that the
"an incredible wave of violence is clearly the product of mass illegal immigration" and that "a paradigm shift is needed in refugee and migration policy".
These are not isolated cases, Amesbauer stressed, as he called on ÖVP Interior Minister Gerhard Karner to answer a parliamentary question about the extent of violent attacks by migrants.
"It is alarming that what is reported to the public is only the tip of the iceberg!"
he warned.
Armed with numerous media reports on acts of violence and knife attacks, the security spokesman formulated 32 specific questions for the Minister of the Interior, reads the press release of the FPÖ.
Turning to his fellow politicians, Amesbauer concluded that in this capacity they are all "responsible for the safety of the domestic population" and not to "provide a welfare service to the whole world!".
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