Right-wing extremism in Austria: Record growth of crimes!

Right-wing extremism in Austria: Record growth of crimes!

Laimgrubengasse 10, 1060 Wien, Österreich - In 2024, an alarming increase in right -wing extremist crime was recorded in Austria, as the Interior Minister Gerhard Karner announced in a parliamentary request. With 1,486 incidents recorded, this represents an increase in a whopping 23 percent compared to the previous year. The majority of these actions were incurred by violations of the prohibition law. These numbers throw a bright light on the growing threat from right -wing extremism in society. "Right -wing extremism is a specific problem of democracy," said Andreas Krane Bitter from the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance and emphasized the need for targeted measures against this dangerous ideology to protect democracy, said OTS

The latest statistics show that of the 1,486 right -wing extremists, 404 took place on the Internet, with 91 percent of the perpetrators being male. According to the SPÖ MP Sabine Schatz, it is that 1,296 is explicitly motivated under these acts, 97 racist, 59 anti-Semitic and 9 Islamophobic. The constitutional protection report also documents that the advertisements according to the prohibition law have also risen from 1,203 to 1,450. At the same time, the advertisements dropped easily due to incitement. The triple coalition of ÖVP, SPÖ and NEOS has agreed to develop a national action plan against right-wing extremism and to publish a report on right-wing extremism annually, such as SN reported.

urgent need for action against extremism

The debate about security in democracy becomes more intense than ever given these numbers. The accumulation of weapon finds in the right -wing extremist scene increases the pressure to act on the government, determined to act against these threats. "The fight against right -wing extremism remains one of the greatest challenges of our time," said Schatz, asking to stand together for the democratic values and actively tackle these threatening developments.