'Send them all back': Austrian chancellor demands EU border patrols return every migrant picked up trying to reach Greece to Turkey

By Sara Malm for MailOnline

Published: 09:31 GMT, 8 February 2016 | Updated: 16:24 GMT, 8 February 2016

The Chancellor of Austria has called for all migrants and refugees trying to reach Europe to be sent back to Turkey.

Chancellor Werner Faymann said border police should save everyone trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to reach the EU, but then immediately deport them.

He added that Austria will extend its border controls if Turkey does not take back refugees picked on their way to Greece and returned.

'Frontex [the EU's border agency] must pick up the people fleeing to Greece. We have to save all of them, but then these people should be sent directly to Turkey,' Social Democrat Faymann said.

The left-wing leader said this approach was 'the only totally effective measure to break the human trafficking' of migrants, The Local reports.

Austria is set to introduce a new border management system at Spielfeld, a key crossing point on its south-eastern border with Slovenia, which aims at speeding up applications and making the country less attractive to asylum seekers.

More such border management facilities on other routes may be needed if Turkey does not respond to his proposal, the chancellor was quoted as saying.

Faymann said Turkey must make a decision by February 18, when EU leaders meet for a summit.

It would not be a solution if Turkish border controls led to 10,000 refugees arriving at EU borders instead of 20,000, Faymann was quoted as saying in the interview.

'Then we must secure our borders even more,' Faymann said. 'To protect internal borders is a makeshift solution. But we have to be prepared.'

Faymann's comments comes just months after he fiercely criticised Hungary's managing of the refugee crisis, comparing their methods to the Nazi persecution of Jews during the Holocaust.

During an interview in September, Faymann suggested that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's treatment of the refugees was similar to the deportation of Jews to Nazi death camps.

'Sticking refugees in trains and sending them somewhere completely different to where they think they're going reminds us of the darkest chapter of our continent's history,' he said, making a thinly-veiled allusion to the way thousands of Hungarian Jews were transported to Auschwitz in 1944.

Austria, which has a population of 8.4 million and last year received 90,000 applications for asylum, has said that the number of refugees it will accept this year will be limited to 37,500.

Ankara and Brussels agreed to slow down the flow of migrants in a deal reached late November last year, but refugees continue to stream into Greece.

More than one million people arrived in Europe last year, fleeing war and failing states in the Middle East and Africa.

Earlier today, reports came of at least 11 people drowning when when their boat sank in the Aegean while they tried to cross from Turkey to Greece, local media said.

The migrants had set off from the district of Dikili in western port city of Izmir in an apparent bid to reach the Greek island of Lesbos, Dogan news agency said.

The Turkish coastguard rescued three migrants.

Turkey, which is hosting at least 2.5 million refugees from Syria's civil war, has become the main launchpad for migrants fleeing war, persecution and poverty to Europe.

The deaths came as German Chancellor Angela Merkel has met Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu for more talks on reducing the influx of migrants to Europe.

Turkey, a key country on the migrant route to Europe, is central to Ms Merkel's diplomatic efforts to reduce the flow. Germany saw an unprecedented 1.1 million asylum seekers arrive last year, many of them fleeing conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

In her weekly video message on Saturday, Ms Merkel said European Union countries agree that the bloc needs to protect its external borders better, and that is why she is seeking a solution with Turkey. She added that, if Europe wants to prevent smuggling, "we must be prepared to take in quotas of refugees legally and bear our part of the task".

"I don't think Europe can keep itself completely out of this."

Daily Mail napisao članak o 3 muslimana iz Australije kako su silovali Norvežanku u WC-u jednog kafića u Splitu.
Pa ih tužitelj pustio uz priznanje i koju tisuću Eura globe.

Lijepe riječi našeg kancelara Viktora Orbana....pardon Wernera.
Danas Orban zvuči kao kamilica što izjavljuju predsjednici i premijeri drugih država. Osvetilo im se što su ga napadali. Davno su izgubili volju za tim i zapelo im u grlu.

Daily Mail napisao članak o 3 muslimana iz Australije kako su silovali Norvežanku u WC-u jednog kafića u Splitu.
Pa ih tužitelj pustio uz priznanje i koju tisuću Eura globe.

Kad prije je uspio da nađe posao taksiste?

Da, Libanonci su, no treba reći da je Norvežanka pristala na nagodbu s novčanom naknadom. Vjerujem da je to bilo silovanje samo po skandinavskim shvaćanjima i da bi slučaj pao na sudu, a s druge strane ovim likovima se nije dalo dokazivati nevinost.

THE mother of the 10-year-old boy raped by a migrant in an Austrian swimming pool cubicle has said she now regrets teaching her children to be welcoming to migrants.

Iraqi migrant admits raping boy in Austrian swimming pool, says it was a “sexual emergency”

Iraqi migrant rapes a 10-year-old boy at a swimming pool in Vienna and tells police it was a 'sexual emergency' because he hadn't had sex in months

The victim had to be hospitalised following injuries inflicted by the suspect, who worked as a taxi driver after arriving in Austria via the Balkans in September, and who has a wife and daughter back in Iraq.

Islamic hate preacher who recruited ISIS poster girls travelled through Europe 'like a popstar on tour as he brainwashed teenagers'

By GIANLUCA MEZZOFIORE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 16:30 GMT, 22 February 2016 | UPDATED: 17:26 GMT, 22 February 2016

An alleged Islamic hate preacher reported to have been the terror mastermind who recruited the Austrian jihad 'poster girls' and more than 160 others was travelling Europe 'like a popstar on tour', a court heard.

Mirsad Omerovic, 34, known by the Islamic name of 'Ebu Tejma', was arrested in November last year at the council flat he shared with his pregnant wife and five children.

Authorities believe Omerovic, originally from Bosnia now on trial in Austria's southern city of Graz, recruited Samra Kesinovic, 17 and Sabina Selimovic, 16, who became the public face of jihad.

He was also involved in a further 166 defections of European youngsters to fight in holy war.

Omerovic flat was stuffed with jewellery, cash and savings books worth a fortune when it was stormed by Austria's elite heavily-armed police special forces team WEGA. He had also been spotted driving top-of-the-range sport cars.

Opening his trial in Austria, the prosecutor told the court that Omerovic's 'main message was that Islam needed to be spread to the world through jihad.'

He added that Ebu Tejma was travelling through Europe 'like a popstar on tour'.

And he added that the popstar analogy was particularly appropriate because Omerovic even had his own YouTube channel aimed at young Muslims aged between 14 and their late twenties.

He added it offered 'to carry out brainwashing on those that viewed it'.

The two Austrian teens became the terror organisation's latest PR coup when they turned out to be poster girls for the death cult, and featured on ISIS websites carrying AK-47s and surrounded by groups of armed men.

Neither however has been seen for almost a year, with a Tunisian ISIS returnee telling investigators that Samra had been forced to become a sex slave who was offered as a present to new fighters, and that she was later stoned to death when she tried to escape.

With regards to Sabina, a United Nations official revealed a girl 'of Bosnian origin from Austria' - believed to be Sabina - had died fighting in Syria.

Both had allegedly become radicalised by Omerovic. When they had left their homes, they left a note for their families which read: 'Don't look for us. We will serve Allah and we will die for him.'

As well as the two girls, Omerovic has also been linked in with the recruitment of more than 160 others who eventually joined ISIS.

The valuables that were seized at his home had all been provided by Muslims radicalised by the preacher and his cronies in a network that reportedly extended across the country and into the rest of Europe.

The prosecutor also claimed that on his computer a file that was a guide to making an explosive device was found. It was a guidebook to making an explosive device that could be detonated by mobile phone.

His arrest has been seen as a major blow against the terrorist group's activities and now the trial under judge Stephan Mertens is taking place in part behind closed doors to protect the identity of witnesses.

It is the first time a Muslim has been charged with murder through terrorism in Austria and he is also accused of inciting a co-accused in the murder of 'infidels' which could result in up to 20 years in prison.

The co-accused is a 28-year-old Russian who was targeted by police because of his violence as the right-hand man of Omerovic.

He is accused of carrying out numerous murders of civilians in Syria as well as the shooting of sex slaves and forcing others out of their homes.

Security service insiders claim that he was not only one of 200 leading jihadists, but was also one of the leaders of the so called 'Bosnian cell' based in the Meidling district of Vienna that it was 'one of the most important logistic and financial support centres for jihadist activities in Europe', according to the 'Vecernje novosti', a local newspaper in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Austria has been concerned for years over fears that the country was becoming a hub for terrorist activities after inviting thousands of Muslim refugees into the country during the breakup of the former Yugoslavia.

It meant Vienna provided a fertile breeding ground for Omerovic and his network. The Austrian newspaper the Krone claimed that 'there was scarcely a single recruit in Europe for Jihad in which he and his group were not involved'. In preparing the case, the prosecutor also asked German Islam expert Guido Steinberg to analyse YouTube videos that Omerovic had made.

Originally from the small Serbian town of Tutin, Tejma was known in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a preacher of hatred and intolerance, who very soon found himself allied with the extreme form of Islam known as Wahhabism – an ultra-conservative, Saudi brand of Salafism.

According to Austrian anti-terrorism authorities, Tejma appeared on their radar more than three years ago, when he began uploading videos onto his YouTube channel.

His arrest followed two years of investigation by intelligence officials that had been tapping his communications, monitoring his phone calls and building up a picture of his network - which then prompted the arrests on November 28.

One of those connections is allegedly a direct line to the caliph of ISIS terrorism, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Investigators saw a constant stream of Salafist Muslims during their operation on Tejma.

Salafism is the fastest-growing Islamic movement in the world. It is rooted in the 19th century where it emerged as a way of combating the spread of European ideas and values.

But in recent years, it has come to be associated with the jihad of extremist groups that advocate the killing of innocent civilians. Lawyers for Omerovic told the court that he would claim to have done nothing more than teaching Islam as he had been trained to do so in Saudi Arabia.

Security services recorded a constant stream of Salafist preachers, often accompanied by Mujahedin fighters travelling up from Bosnia and Herzegovina, to the mosque and the imam has been appearing in online videos revealing that it is every Muslim's duty to join jihad if an Islamic state is under attack from non-believers.

Opening the case, the prosecutor in Graz added in conclusion that there were 'so many already from Austria who were young men and women who went to Syria and have been killed'. They added: 'The ISIS ideology is an enormous danger to our society that needs to be seriously tackled.'

'Come here at night? I would rather order a taxi straight to hell!': Women forced to run gauntlet of migrants at the Austrian station so risky it's been dubbed 'the terminus of fear'

By ALLAN HALL IN LINZ FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 08:30 GMT, 23 February 2016 | UPDATED: 16:03 GMT, 23 February 2016

Hordes of drunk, predatory migrants have turned an Austrian train station into a 'no-go zone' for local women, who dub the station 'The Terminus of Fear'.

Linz Station has become a gathering point for migrants rejected by Germany at the border a few miles away - drawn to its free internet, cheap drink, fast-food joints and heated passenger halls as they calculate their next move.

But pack mentality has set in, creating a 'Cologne-light' mentality, which sees women subjected to having their breasts and buttocks grabbed and the alcohol-fuelled men try to steal kisses, all the while slurring lewd sexual insults in pidgin German.

The men fight, they fall down, the vomit, they defecate in the bushes on the greensward outside the station entrance, women told MailOnline.

One woman interviewed by MailOnline outside was too frightened to give her name. But in terse sentences, delivered in the staccato of a firing machine gun, she said: 'Come here at night? I would rather order a taxi straight to hell.

'What's it like? It is terrible. Fearful. I would say shameful. They are predators, they are drunk and they are all over the place.

Come here at night? I would rather order a taxi straight to hell. They are predators, they are drunk and they are all over the place.
'I hate what they have turned this into. I am a decent person, I am not a Nazi, not a hater of people. But they have no right to behave the way they do in my city. Or anywhere. How dare they make my station a place of fear.'

Police or any other local authority have refused to identify the troublesome migrants. They are collectively referred to as North Africans, citizens of countries like Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco that are now no longer considered danger zones by Germany.

But one senior lawman told MailOnline that the majority of the troublemakers turning the concourse into a no-go zone for females at night are from one country; Morocco.

The Linz problem was highlighted in an embarrassing - for the bureaucrats at least - letter by a father of a 16-year-old girl to the local governor Josef Puehringer. Identified only as Franz H., he said: 'My daughter is 16 and is terrified when she has to come through Linz train station in the evening.

'As a result, we have now arranged a travel group with other parents. My wife and I went to see it for ourselves. We travelled the same route that our daughter did and we found out that it was even worse than she described.

'There was not a policeman in sight and in a country like Austria it cannot be the case that our children are scared going to and from work.'

Two 16-year-old students, probably just like his daughter, named Damaris and Joanna, had a profound mistrust of the new arrivals which seemed out of step with their youth and innocence.

'Come down here at night? You must be joking!' said Joanna. 'We have read too much in the papers and seen too much on the TV for that.

'We have heard how women have to be escorted on to trains, how migrants are raping people. I don't want that to happen to me.'

Damaris just nodded in agreement before both moved off before dusk began to fall.

But Franz H.'s protest was not in vain. Teams of police from the 'Lentos' unit - hardened officers deployed at violent demonstrations and to quell brutal fans at football matches - are now to be seen marching confidently, overtly, through the station, the body language telegraphing to potential troublemakers that they will come off on the losing end of any confrontation.

'I think we can say that the situation is quiet now thanks the massive police prescence in the station.' Police Oberrat David Furtner, an engaging senior officer, gave Mail Online the lowdown on what has gone on in recent weeks, and how law and order is responding to it.

'It is true that in the past few weeks there have been problems with a group of, largely, North African men,' he said, not referring to their race. 'There have been between 40 and 50 of them at any one time, aged between 18 and 30.

'They have been up to all sorts of things - from sexual harassment to public drunkeness, drug taking, even causing actual bodily harm.

'Most of the suspects, we have to say, are severely drunken. Three Red Cross workers were attacked by some of them at their nearby post in January and needed hospital treatment. They will not operate now without a permanent police presence.

'Cologne was the thing that changed everything for Germany and for us. We have not experienced such things before January 1 and suddenly we are: women complaining of sitting alone on station benches and suddenly being approached. One on one side, one on the other and one right up close in her face saying the most terrible things.

'It is too early to give an accurate number because we are so early into the new year - but, yes, there has been an increase in the number of complaints from women complaining of sexual harassment and we can link that directly to what happened at Cologne. Women are more willing to come forward as a result of that.'

But the volatile mix of booze, drugs and a growing mood of impotency and anger that many testosterone-fuelled young asylum seekers feel, is not only a threat to women hurrying to catch the train home from work.

On January 13, a Moroccan slashed the neck of an Afghan refugee in the bicycle park area of the station, wounding him gravely. For whatever reason, he was not arrested for that crime but, nine days later, was caught shoplifting a bottle of scotch and several tins of beer and ended up in a brawl with the security personnel of Austrian Railways, whose patrols are now also highly visible inside the railway station.

The man is now incarcerated in a mental hospital. The hope is that there are not many others like him, but logic dictates that the next incident can only be just over the horizon or around the corner.

At the local Caritas charity centre Ahmed Al-Ghalibi, one of the leaders of the effort to help refugees, said; 'We have to call the police three, four times a day because of the problems.' He meant the problems caused by Moroccan youths.

Police and politicians believe that only massive pressure on the countries that the troublemakers come from will lead to a permanent solution: until then the police are a Band Aid applying pressure to staunch a wound that threatens to bleed at any moment.

Young mother Vanessa Zellner, 22, hugging her young daughter Caitlyn, four, outside the station as she waited to collect a friend, said: 'I personally cannot say anything bad about refugees because I have personally not had a bad experience with them.

'But I know people who have and I have read so much about the trouble here at night. God, I can't imagine it. I wouldn't want to be here.'

The troubles at Linz come in a week when there was mixed news about crime in Austria.

Latest statistics show that crime carried out by asylum seekers in Austria increased from 'around' 10,000 incidents in 2014 to 14,000 offences last year, even though in 2015 there were 500,000 criminal charges, whereas in 2014, there were around 528,000.

This kind of number crunching has no meaning for people forced to run a gauntlet of fear and suspicion every day.

The atmosphere was poisoned by Cologne and its toxic aftermath has drifted hundreds of miles to the Alpine state where the scare factor has seen a corresponding rise in the purchase of pepper sprays and other personal defence items.

Anke and Kristina, both 18-year-old students at the fashion school in Linz, made it clear that they appreciated the new heavy presence of the police in the station - but also that they would, like so many, avoid it during the hours of darkness.

'I heard a woman got raped and was rolled on to the tracks,' said Anke. 'I don't what that to happen to me.'

It didn't happen. But truth is as much a casualty of the immigration crisis along with the age-old securities that most took for granted.

'For good or bad,' said one officer on patrol in Linz station on Thursday night, 'nothing will ever be the same for any of us.'

Linz osjetio "draži" islama. Tisuću i jedna noć na malo alternativniji način.

Austria Expels Foreign-Funded Imam

by NICK HALLETT20 Feb 201693
Austria has expelled its first foreign-funded imam under new anti-extremism measures introduced in February last year.

Imam Yakup Aynagoz, who was imam at the Ahi Evran mosque in the town of St Veit an der Göslen was ordered to leave the country in seven days after his visa was not extended. Kurier reports his salary was being paid by Turkey.

The law was introduced after the small central Euopean nation was accused of being a breeding ground for terror and doing little to combat the problem.

Many of its mosques are funded by foreign nations, including Saudi Arabia, who often import foreign imams with little understanding of Austrian culture or the German language. The Local says the new law requires imams to speak German in an attempt to help integrate Islam into Austrian society, and also allow security services to understand sermons better .

Mr Aynagoz’s deportation order comes despite Austria’s Constitutional Court describing the law as discriminatory because it only targets Muslims. Another 65 imams also face deportation in the coming weeks after being told their visas will not be renewed.

Integration Minister Sebastian Kurz, who helped draft the law, said: “We want a future in which increasing numbers of imams have grown up in Austria speaking German, and can in that way serve as positive examples for young Muslims.”

Six people are currently in detention in the city of Salzburg accused of plotting further attacks on the French capital Paris. Breitbart London reported earlier this week that two of the men have now confessed to the plot after being arrested in a migrant centre, posing as refugees.

The 28-year-old Algerian and 34-year-old Pakistani had applied for asylum in Austria after being denied further travel when border guards discovered they were using fake passports.

They had reportedly been in contact with Abdelhamid Abaaoud, one of the ring leaders of the Paris attacks.