Right -wing extremism at record high: Austria on alert will!

Right -wing extremism at record high: Austria on alert will!

Laimgrubengasse 10, 1060 Wien, Österreich - A worrying increase in right -wing extremist crime in Austria provides the alarm. According to the Interior Ministry, the number of such crimes rose from 1,208 in 2023 to alarming 1,486 in 2024, which corresponds to an increase of almost 23 percent. Particularly frightening: 27 percent of the 2024 registered acts took place on the Internet, and overwhelming 91 percent of the perpetrators are male. The SPÖ MP Sabine Schatz emphasizes that these numbers have to mobilize all democratic forces to protect our democracy, as well as Oe24.at . In view of this dramatic situation, the Mauthausen Committee Austria and the Antifa network have urged that the new government immediately implement a national action plan against right-wing extremism. This is particularly important because numerous right-wing extremist acts such as Nazi re-actuation, holocaust denial and incitement are unbroken. MKÖ chairman Willi Mernyi said that this action plan has been requested since 2013 and now that it is anchored in the government program, it must be implemented as quickly as possible. The speaker of the network, Robert Eiter, emphasizes that the government cannot ignore this topic and should include civil society in the implementation of the plan, so ots.at

Is the government ready to act?

The coalition of ÖVP, SPÖ and Neos plans to develop a comprehensive action plan to determine right -wing extremism in Austria. An official report on the situation of the right -wing motivated crimes is also published annually. According to Andreas Krane Bitter, head of the documentation archive of Austrian resistance (DÖW), it is crucial that the problem is taken seriously. The monitoring of messenger services should also be implemented in order to better manage the threat from right -wing extremist networks.