Around 450 participants move through Vienna. The Turkish embassy is targeted. For the most part, everything is still quiet, but the mood is bubbling.
So far, the rally of Kurdish and left-wing activists on Saturday in the late afternoon in Vienna’s favorites has been peaceful and without incident. “Everything is quiet,” the police told APA on request. According to this, around 450 people took part in the rally on Columbusplatz. However, the mood was noticeably simmering. Again and again there were individual malfunctions and attempts. However, the police always intervened immediately and resolved the situation. As in previous days, wolf greetings were occasionally seen. But here, too, the executive acted promptly and reported everyone, as a user describes on Twitter.
Individual firecrackers could also be heard quickly. At the main train station, a man was hit on the chest by one of the firecrackers. He was slightly injured.
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Demo train to the embassy
The demonstrators then headed for the Turkish embassy in Vienna-Wieden. However, the police closed Prinz-Eugen-Straße shortly before the embassy. One of the banners read: “Freedom for all political prisoners! No kneeling in front of the dictator Erdogan”. The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was depicted on it with a Hitler beard.
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Major demo of the Turkish embassy is becoming more colorful! #EKH #Favorites pic.twitter.com/kC54HAhOWs
– autonomous antifa [w] (@antifa_w) June 27, 2020
An Antifa banner read: “Together against fascism”. In addition to Antifa flags, YPJ flags were worn, for example. The YPJ are the women’s fighting associations of the Kurdish People’s Defense Units (YPG), an armed Kurdish militia in Syria.
In the past few days, violent clashes between Kurdish and left-wing demonstrators, on the one hand, and Turkish-ultra-nationalist and right-wing extremist counter-demonstrators, on the other, had occurred in Vienna-Favoriten. There were injuries, arrests and property damage. As a result, the rally on Saturday saw increased attention from the police.
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