Police in Vorarlberg have arrested a 17-year old male for vandalizing
Jewish and Muslim cemeteries in Hohenems and Altach.
Police tracked him down after he posted pro-Nazi statements on social
media. When officers arrived with a search warrant for his home he tried to
attack a police woman with an iron bar. He was restrained by her colleagues and
she was unharmed.
A search of his home on October 28th revealed a stash of banned Nazi
materials and stickers with right-wing and anti-immigrant slogans on them.
After being questioned by police the teenager, from Hohenems, confessed
to having daubed antisemitic and right-wing extremist symbols and slogans on
buildings – including a refugee centre, a Jewish Museum, a chapel, an
underpass, Jewish memorials and buildings and Jewish and Muslim graves. He also
admitted to having distributed flyers containing banned content.
He has been charged with 15 criminal offences including violating the
prohibition law, serious damage to property, resisting arrest and attempted
grievous bodily harm to a police officer.
