Journalist Richard Medhurst arrested in Austria: Suking terrorism shocked!

Journalist Richard Medhurst arrested in Austria: Suking terrorism shocked!

On Monday, February 6, 2025, British journalist Richard Medhurst was arrested in Austria after the police and secret services had searched his home and his studio. Numerous personal objects and its journalistic tools were confiscated in the raid. Medhurst is suspended to be a member of Hamas, an organization classified in the European Union as a terroristically classified organization, which he decisively rejects. This was published by the "Krone", which also reported that the al-Qassam brigades, the military arm of Hamas, will be attributed to the devastating attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, in which over 1,300 people were killed or kidnapped.

The civil servants had submitted a search command and took it in custody for several hours, where he had to hand in fingerprints and DNA samples, among other things. During the searches, manuscripts were also confiscated for a book on cybercrime on which Medhurst has been working for two years. The journalist accused the Austrian authorities of being part of a "trap" in which he got in connection with a procedure in Great Britain. He also criticized the procedure of the authorities and emphasized: "Journalism is not a crime", as he showed in a video on YouTube, in which he described the allegations as "crazy".

connections to the British government?

medhurst stated that in the past he was arrested in Great Britain under the terrorism law. He noticed an overwhelming similarity between the allegations in Austria and those in the UK, and suspects that his arrest could represent coordinated actions between the two countries. When he asked the Austrian officials whether the British government was involved in the process, they claimed that England did not communicate with them. This leaves doubts about the independence of the investigation in Medhurst.

The arrest and the raid are carried out at a time when the conservative government in Austria is under pressure to form a new coalition that could possibly take a harder line towards journalists and migrants. Medhurst with regard to his critical reporting on Israel is called a "journalist" and clearly distances itself from the allegations that are made against him, as well as the wSws reported. He is now fighting to continue his work and asks for financial support to ward off the influence of the investigation.