The right-wing extremist 'stuck two pig heads on an Islamic centre and mosque and smeared the minaret with blood'
By Jessica Ware
Daily Mail
May 7, 2016
An Austrian man has been arrested after allegedly putting two bloody pig heads on a fence at an Islamic centre and smearing blood across the walls of its new mosque.
The 46-year-old, who is known by Austrian police as a right-wing extremist, arrived at the mosque being built in the southern city of Graz on Thursday night allegedly carrying two pigs heads, police said.
The gruesome act was discovered by members of the Graz Islamic Centre only when they left the building at around 11pm that night.
'They were sitting in the clubhouse watching football and so hadn't noticed what was going on outside,' spokesman for the centre Aldin Bektas told the Krone.
'When the left the building, the police were there, as a passer-by had informed then.'
'This attack is not only an attack against our mosque but more than that is an attack on an entire religious community, its followers and freedom of religion,' the centre then said on Facebook.
The statement added that they would like to thank the quick action of the Austrian police, who arrived quickly to find the two heads hanging on wire fencing.
'He put the pig heads on the construction site and smeared the minaret with blood,' police spokesman Leo Josephus said.
Officers arrested a man at the scene, who has been named by the Krone as known right-wing extremist Thomas K.
He is thought to be unemployed and a vocal member of the far-right group Partei des Volkes (party of the people).
It is not the first time that pig heads have been places at the large Islamic centre site - in 2012 six bloody heads appeared but it was not clear who left them there, according to ORF.at.
Last month the interior ministry said there was a 54 percent rise in extremist and racist incidents in 2015, ranging from vandalism and assaults to fanning hatred against foreigners.
Austria took in 90,000 asylum-seekers in 2015, making it the European Union's second-largest recipient per capita, while around 10 times that number passed through.
The influx, as well as a number of highly publicised sexual assaults by migrants, has prompted the government to take a harder line on immigration and has boosted the far-right Freedom Party (FPOe).
On April 24 FPOe candidate Norbert Hofer came a clear first in the first round of elections for the largely ceremonial post of president with 35 percent of the vote. Bookmakers expect him to win a run-off on May 22.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The nutjob forgot to drop strips of bacon on each prayer rug.
1 comment:
I like bacon. Don't waste it on prayer rugs.
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