Cheers in Vienna: Thousands of Syrians celebrate Assad-Sturz-FPÖ demands return!

Cheers in Vienna: Thousands of Syrians celebrate Assad-Sturz-FPÖ demands return!

Wien, Österreich - The heart of Vienna was hit by a wave of the jubilation on December 8th! Thousands of Syrians went through the city center to celebrate the fall of long-time President Bashar al-Assad. An originally manageable demonstration, organized by the "Free Syrian Community in Austria", turned into a mass event. According to the police, more than 12,000 participants flocked, while some reports even increase this number to 30,000. The focus was on the support of the Syrian refugees and their right to return to their now liberated villages. The FPÖ also found clear words for this-it demands the return of the demonstrators home, since the asylum base in her opinion, of course magazine .

The head of the FPÖ, Herbert Kickl, left no doubt about his position. On Telegram, he made it clear that the Jublers should return to their homeland because they now need them. Another positive effect of this return: the Austrian social system would be relieved, explained Kickl. In a dramatic intolerance, he noticed that one or the other “knife specialist” would also leave Austria. With "good journey home" he closed his message.

demands and warnings: FPÖ raises alarm

Hannes Amesbauer, security spokesman for the FPÖ, criticized the police precautions of the police, who, according to his assessment, no longer had the influx of crowds under control. Officials who should actually be in a football game were deducted into the city center. He spoke of an escalation caused by shots of joy with shear guns. This was already pure for Amesbauer, and he wondered whether the same standards would be used at this rally as with patriotic demonstrations.

In the middle of this emotionally charged mood, Syrian opposition groups announced that the tyrant Bashar al-Assad had been overthrown. The news that was spread by Syrian state television and social media was aimed at the Syrian refugees worldwide: "Free Syria awaits you". The Islamist group Hajat Tahrir al-Sham, which together with allied militias had brought several cities under their control.

a new Syria? The location remains complex

At the end of the demonstrative celebrations of Vienna, the world looks closely at Syria. Maslum Abdi, leader of the democratic forces of Syria, sees the overthrow as a historical moment. He emphasizes that this offers the opportunity to build a Syria based on democracy and justice. But hope mixes with chaos. At the Lebanese border, the BBC reported numerous returnees who flocked to the liberated villages to start a new chapter. The social media showed pictures of cheering prisoners who were released from the notorious Saydnaya prison.

When the news of the fall of Assad's fall, hundreds of thousands of Syrians all over the world, especially those in Vienna, prevented the evening an ordinary. While she celebrated her freedom loudly, the question of what the future brings remained in the room. An unofficial but all the more symbolic gesture was the fall of a statue of Hafis al-Assad in Damascus-a scene that literally represented the end of a "dark era" according to a report on YouTube .