VIENNA, Austria—Police in Vienna, Austria are facing criticism for escorting a far-right demonstration that featured anti-Muslim slogans as the city reels from last week’s “Islamist terror” attack.Social Democratic politician Omar Al-Rawi shared footage of the Nov.
8 incident, which he received from a local resident, with Zenger News.
In the video, a police car is seen traveling down a street and escorting a van, which is playing a muezzin's call to prayer along with sounds of gunfire through loudspeakers."This was a demonstration organized by a single person who had applied for permission and who had a police escort,” Al-Rawi said.
"The police took far too long to react.
The patrol car apparently contacted the police headquarters, which then said they needed to get legal advice before deciding whether they could cancel the process."Al-Fawi believes the protest lasted for at least an hour before it was stopped and was organized by a person linked to Pegida, which stands for Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident.
The anti-Islamic, far-right political movement was founded in Germany in 2014 and has since spread across Europe.
(Realpress)