A city in Austria has mandated a curfew for underage migrants after a series of sex attacks at a festival over the past few days and has essentially put the migrants under house arrest. The sexual assaults at the Welser Volksfest wine
Twenty-one per cent of all crimes committed by foreigners in Austria are committed by asylum seekers – a number greatly disproportionate to the population of non-Austrian nationals.
The number of illegal migrants who have entered Austria this year has been revealed to be over 120,000 – far more than the supposed government limit of 37,500.
The Defence Minister of Austria has attacked German Chancellor Angela Merkel calling her attitude and policy during the migrant crisis “irresponsible” and holding her accountable for Austria’s migrant problems. Austrian Defence Minister and Socialist Party MP Hans Peter Doskozil did not
Two Arab tourists attacked Austrian police at a popular resort where the officers were bitten, spat on and kicked. The village of Zell am See in Austria is a well known and important tourist destination just outside of Austria’s second
Over 50 Afghan migrants fought among themselves and with police in one of the Austrian capital’s most famous parks and the site of several past migrant crimes. Police were alerted to a massive fight between Afghan migrants at the Venidiger
The Interior Minister of Austria has announced he wants to see tougher laws on asylum seekers including the stripping of asylum for the committing of criminal offences. Interior Minister of Austria Wolfgang Sobotka has put to bed any doubt that
Three migrants tried to get away with paying for several prostitutes in Austria with counterfeit money only for the police to later discover thousands of fake euros in the migrants’ car. Three Afghan asylum seekers took to visiting one of Austria’s
(REUTERS) – Austrian police said on Friday they are turning away four times as many illegal immigrants at the Brenner border crossing as in May due to tougher controls and more migrants heading for northern Europe from Italy.
An Austrian pensioner has been sentenced to six months probation for ‘hate speech’ on social media and when a judge told him he was now a criminal the man replied, “super, very good”.
AUSTRIA has unveiled plans to build a massive 100km fence along its border to stop migrants and refugees crossing into the country.
Police in Austria have begun visiting Asylum homes across the country to check for signs of radicalisation among the residents to prevent potential future terror attacks.
A migrant in Vienna who stabbed his girlfriend at a subway station sent a text to an Austrian woman he’d just met beforehand claiming that he wanted to kill her. On Tuesday night emergency services in the Austrian capital of Vienna
An Austrian NGO has created a guideline for offended parties to easily report any anti-migrant ‘hate speech’ messages to police in order to prosecute those who post them. Non-governmental organisation (NGO) SOS-Mitmench, or SOS Fellow Man, is a pressure group which was
An Austrian policeman has died days after a shootout between Bosnian migrants and Vienna police during an armed robbery gone wrong. Twenty-three-year-old Vienna police officer Daniel S. died Tuesday evening after succumbing to wounds inflicted by a Bosnian migrant gunman
An Austrian army informant working to infiltrate the “far-right” may have participated in hanging pigs’ heads on the building site of a new mosque, the informant alleging the army knew about it before the action took place. In May of this
A Vienna based NGO has called for separate asylum homes for Christians who they say are the victims of Muslim intimidation and violence. The call for separate accommodation for Christians in Austria comes from the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination
Three migrants, who are thought to be members of the Al-Nusra Front and a Shia militia, were arrested by Austrian police at asylum homes in Tirol. The three migrants who were arrested by Austrian police in Tirol are said to have
A new report from the Austrian Interior Ministry reveals that 270 jihadists are under observation after travelling to Syria and Iraq to fight for Islamic State. Answering a request for information from anti mass-migration Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) MP
At a flash-mob style protest at the University of Klagenfurt the hipster-right Identitarians claim they were assaulted by a member of the faculty. A class at the University of Klagenfurt was interrupted by the anti-mass migration Identitarian youth group who staged
Drug related crime has increased by ten per cent this year in the Austrian capital of Vienna largely due to an influx of Nigerian migrants. Police in Vienna have announced they will be taking measures as of 1st June to stem
After the apparently motiveless murder of a woman by an illegal migrant which shocked a nation, Austria considers getting tough on deportations of migrant criminals. The murder of a cleaning lady by an illegal migrant in the early hours of
An illegal migrant with a long criminal history has brutally murdered a 54-year-old woman on a Vienna street while she was on her way to work. News headlines in Austria Wednesday morning were focused on one topic, the brutal killing
Migrants at an asylum centre in the Austrian state of Salzburg rioted after being denied halal food last week. The incident happened at a converted hotel in the small town of Unken, when a travelling halal meat salesman turned up
Dozens of young Chechen and Afghan migrants went to war on the streets of Vienna this weekend, inflicting near fatal injuries in the “mass brawl” with knives, iron bars and wooden batons. Afghans have recently overtaken Chechens as the largest immigrant
An explosive leaked document from the Austria intelligence agency has revealed they expect a “repeat” of the 2015, resulting in Austria becoming a “huge asylum waiting zone” with up to half a million migrants stuck in transit. Austria took in 68,000
Almost half of schoolchildren in the Austrian capital Vienna speak a foreign language as their mother tongue, with the figure at one in five elsewhere in the country. The number of foreign nationals entering the country reached a record high
BRUSSELS (AP) — Austria vowed to press ahead early on Friday with plans to cap the number of asylum seekers entering the country despite claims the move would break the law, as European Union leaders struggled to end their fragmented
VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria will extend its border controls if Turkey does not take back refugees picked up at sea on their way to Greece, Chancellor Werner Faymann said in an interview with the daily Oesterreich. He had earlier said
In the midst of Europe’s ongoing migrant crisis, Austria’s population grew by 115,000 last year to almost 8.7 million, according to official figures. This represents a significant higher rate of growth than in 2014, when the population grew by around
BERLIN (AP) — Austrian authorities say two teenage Syrian brothers have been arrested at a refugee center in the country on suspicion of involvement with terrorist organizations — in one case, the Islamic State group. Prosecutors in Graz said Wednesday
Hungary has accused Austria of confusing “solidarity and stupidity” after Vienna said that nations which do not accept their share of refugees under European Union quotas should face sanctions. Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann had said that countries who did not
Austria should step up deportations of people who do not qualify for asylum, Chancellor Werner Faymann said in remarks published on Saturday, striking a tougher tone on migrants as he comes under pressure from his conservative coalition partners. Hundreds of
Self-styled activists who led a mass “refugee convoy” and drove from Austria into Hungary before returning with migrants could face criminal charges of people smuggling. At least three people who took part in the mass action, an increasingly common ploy in the migrant
Austria has started building a razor wire border fence along its frontier with Slovenia despite Chancellor Werner Faymann’s previous statements opposing such barriers. In a major policy U-turn for the Austrian government, police worked overnight Wednesday to secure major border crossings with the new works.
Austria sought to tighten asylum rules in the face of a record influx of migrants, hours before the first refugees are set to be relocated from Greece Wednesday under a faltering EU plan to ease the burden on southern countries.
Austria will build a fence along its border with European Union (EU) neighbour Slovenia to help stem the migrant invasion now flooding Europe, Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner said today. Both countries are part of the passport-free Schengen zone and remain key transit
Austria’s Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner (pictured above) has called for “a fortress Europe” to protect the European Union (EU) and its external borders as tens of thousands of migrants flood into Austria from Slovenia. Her call was supported by the minister for foreign affairs
Secret documents from the Austrian finance ministry have been leaked, forecasting the nation could take in as many as 215,000 migrants over four years. That influx could cost more than €12 billion to the Austrian taxpayer – seven times more
BUDAPEST, Hungary (Sept. 6) – The human flood tide surging into Europe from its southern Mediterranean shores is only beginning. Hungary’s Prime Minister Victor Orban has warned that ‘uncountable millions’ of migrants from the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa are on the way
