The “Night of Horror” should not remain without consequences. According to information from the “Krone”, the Halloween rioters in Linz are mainly young Syrians, Afghans and Chechens, many of them asylum seekers. Interior Minister Karner now says: Withdrawal procedures would be initiated without delay.
There were 130 reports and nine arrests on the night of All Saints’ Day in downtown Linz. As reported, the riots – 200 young people rioted for hours, threw firecrackers and glass bottles at passers-by and police officers – were no coincidence either. Rather, it was a planned action. It was announced on TikTok 19 hours in advance. The large-scale operation around Halloween night had already triggered debates in Upper Austria on Tuesday morning. The Mayor of Linz, Klaus Luger (SPÖ), said that there was “zero tolerance towards violent people” in Linz, “regardless of their motives”. Provincial Governor Thomas Stelzer (ÖVP) praised, among other things, “the courageous commitment” of the security forces. At the same time, he emphasized the need to “tighten the penalties for assaults on police officers”.Governing FPÖ Upper Austria rumbles against federal ÖVPThe FPÖ Upper Austria, which governs the state with the People’s Party, took the incident as an opportunity to criticize the federal ÖVP . “This is the visible bill for the failed and sleepy migration policy of Chancellor Nehammer and Interior Minister Karner,” said state party secretary Michael Gruber. Interior Minister Karner (ÖVP) first explained in a press statement that he had commissioned the state police director and the city police commander to convene a security summit with the mayor to “analyze the situation and make the necessary deductions”. Finally, to make it more precise to the “Krone”: The security summit will be “convened immediately” and the asylum deprivation procedure will be “initiated immediately”.
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