Austrian FPO politician pied in Vienna
This article was taken from "der Standard" one of austrias daily
newspapers. For your information: the Freedom Party (FPO) is a extreme
right wing party and is part of a government coalition with the austrian
people's party (ovp). Joerg Haider the leader of the FPO became "famous"
for saying "the third reich had a very good employment policy" and for
speaking and openly supporting austrian SS veterans. Over the last
few months austria some of the biggest protests in its history (and a lot
of police intimidation against activists) against the government.
The leader of the FPO-Vienna was pied in the face with a chocolate
cake.
On Tuesday (April 18) Hilmar Kabas, the leader of vienna's FPO party
was attacked by an unknown man while he was giving a TV-interview for the
program "the Report" on the Favoritenstraþe (street name). The man
attacked him from behind with a chocolate cake. FPO secretary Michael
Kreiþl said it was a violent interruption. Kabas himself said
in an interview: " The man approached me from behind and pressed the cake
into my face with full force. I was seeing stars." After the attack Kabas
said
he was suffering from headaches and had problems with his eyes. A doctor
will look after him on Wednesday. "I have headache because the man
really hit the cake very hard in my face." The Austrian Broadcasting
Corporation (ORF) was interviewing Kabas at an information event of the
FPO in a pedestrian zone when the incident occurred. The culprit
escaped. "This was lucky for him he would have been beaten up really badly
if he would have been caught." said Kabas who said that the people in the
area were on his side. But, he said, it should not be too difficult
to find the man, who is about 25 years old, since the ORF camera was filming
the whole time. when and if the ORF will broadcast the incident is
still being
discussed.
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