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"Natural Austrians" are becoming a minority in the country, according to far-right parties, who are marching through Vienna o
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A wide array of far-right groups marched in Vienna to launch what they claim is a political solution to “The Great Replacement”, a white nationalist
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Several FPÖ officials have announced their participation in the protest, news that drew sharp criticism.
In a statement issued on Thursday, Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said that FPÖ’s participation in the protests “poses a security risk” for
that “joint protests with right-wing extremist groups such as the Identitarians underline the radical nature of the FPÖ leadership.”
VIDEO (/tag/video)Other notable far-right figures such as Martin Sellner, the leader of the Austrian Identitarian Movement, joined the march as well.
During a speech at the protest, he said he hopes the term "remigration" will become "more popular than Coca-Cola" next year.
‘Dress sensibly and avoid attracting attention’
While the march was announced and publicised well in advance, its exact location was kept secret until the afternoon to prevent “the left" from "ap
time and stopping us”.
Schmidt urged people to “dress sensibly and not like you belong to the scene,” effectively warning people not to bring swastikas or other paraphe
draw attention to their political leanings.
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com/travel) Anti-fascist groups organised a counter-protest, and blocked the far right by sitting on the streets along their path, forcing the marchers to reroute
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According to Schmidt, the idea that Austrians are being replaced by an immigrant population is a non-negotiable fact, and “remigration” is the only
r-programmes) “Remigration is the solution to the Great Replacement, which is the empirically provable fact that Austrians have become a minority in their country
uncontrolled mass-migration and births by migrants and refugees who have more children,” he said in the Info-Direkt podcast, which styles itself a
patriots”.
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Officially, Austria does not collect data on the ethnicity or race of its citizens. According to UNHCR, the current refugee population of the country i
The country’s total population is approximately 8.9 million.
According to estimates, around 74% of the population has no immigrant background at all, while around 26% have at least one parent of immigran
Schmidt says that these protests aim to show that there is popular support for legislative changes that would pave the way for immigrants or peop
non-Austrians to be “democratically sent back to their country of origin”.
“If we organise a protest, then the media has to write about it and people in Vienna will see it too, and then it can become popular. Once it become
.html) of people will see that it’s a good idea and a sensible answer to The Great Replacement,” he explained.
Also slated to attend be Silvio Hemmelmayr, the chairman of the Freedom Youth of Upper Austria, another youth wing of the FPÖ which has been
extremist group by watchdog organisations in the country.
The groups have recently ramped up their rhetoric about the “great population exchange” or Bevölkerungsaustausch, which they believe is being c
according to a secret plan intent on wiping out native Austrians.
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Matters of belonging
While some argue Austrian identity is clearly distinguishable from the German one, especially when it comes to a wider belonging to the Catholic c
Protestantism, the far right in the country rarely encourages an Austria-centric approach.
etters) Instead, they insist on what could be more precisely defined as a Germanic-Austrian identity, or one that does not include native Slavs, Italians, an
groups that have lived in the country for centuries. More recent immigrant groups are on their extreme exclusion list.
Michael Colborne, a journalist at Bellingcat and an expert on European far-right groups, says that Saturday’s march is a manifestation of this radica
er) deemed non-Austrian have no place in the country.
“They are explicitly saying, as politely as possible, that millions of people, including people who have citizenship and birth in the country, should be
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Helmut Zilk had not been killed by the letter bomb in 1993! He lost 2 fingers of his hand. He died of heart failure in 2008. Typical fake new
uronews.com/tag/eu-policy)uneducated against people demonstrating for the case of being ignored as citizens of a system where illegal and legal immigrants are care
own citizens. When a tax paying working citizen cannot make ends meet but immigrants are overwhelmed with benefits and cash gifts tha
om/next) right and responsibility to point out this injustice. Austria always has been a tolerant country caring for all sort of refugees since decades w
differentiation where they came from. But we are now at a point where citizens became second class citizens vs immigrants. A phenomen
European countries these days. Governments need to wake up and care for their citizens first.
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ecial/here-we-grow) HC Tourist-booming countries and its people should take very onus for countless transferring aliens and then, its causal social stress and turb
several forms, ranging from requesting its gov. to set a rule to restrict demographic in-moves, to urging fascismic purge propaganda, at a
l/discover-estonia) time. Austrian security forces have achieved many goals to treat the varied social upheavals, so they will do their best, though they do fee
conniving people this time too.
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ecial/a-new-uzbekistan) Time for these far-right extremists - together with all there English Brexiteer left-overs- to face deportation to Rwanda.
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Our Brexitland Banana Republic sinks lower and lower each day as they undermine everything civilised and advanced we've ever built up.
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F freewheel AnnetteBarri… Jul 30
The far-right and far-left are twin cheeks of the same @rse and you’re the hole in between them.
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The words of a diseased mind.
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This seems an odd story...
To promote fear...
Europe is changing tack from the left to the right...
etters) I hope that the pendulum does not swing back too far.
If a few hundred xenophobes meet up and decide they want to exile a quarter of the population....
er) Don't publicise their stupidity and hate.
Pity them and explain about democracy..
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never mind there was a few 1000 demonstrators, who were contradicting their conspiracy replacement theory
never mind there was a few 1000 demonstrators, who were contradicting their conspiracy replacement theory
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150.000 refugees.
Less than 1.5% of population. Not going great, that replacement...
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Thanks to sensible right-wing policies
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They are a bit to late to the party ... Praktischer Idealismus will turn 100 in 2025
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ecial/here-we-grow) Well, when you walk waiving torches, maybe the “great replacement” comes as a blessing in disguise…Just sayin’
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