Federal Ministry of the Interior, Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism (Bundesministerium für Inneres, Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz und Terrorismusbekämpfung) (2018), Annual Report on the Protection of the Constit

Country

Austria

Title

Federal Ministry of the Interior, Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism (Bundesministerium für Inneres, Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz und Terrorismusbekämpfung) (2018), Annual Report on the Protection of the Constitution (Verfassungsschutzbericht 2017)

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Year

2017

Type of publication

Report

Geographical coverage

National

Area/location of interest

Not applicable - national level

Type of Institution

Public authority

Institution

Austria, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism | Bundesministerium für Inneres, Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz und Terrorismusbekämpfung

Main Thematic Focus

Hate crime

Target Population

Right-wing extremists

Key findings

In 2017, the Austrian security authorities registered 1,063 right-wing extremist, xenophobic/racist, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic and unspecific or other criminal acts. 58.1 percent, were successfully solved. The report found that despite a decrease in the number of asylum seekers, there is no foreseeable end to the right-wing extremist agitations towards asylum seekers based on hostility and xenophobic/ racist agitations in general. Islamophobia, hostility towards asylum seekers and xenophobia are currently the main topics characterising the phenomenon of right-wing extremism.

Methodology (Qualitative/Quantitative and exact type used, questionnaires etc)

quantitative (statistics on incidents)
qualitative (expert assessments)

Sample details and representativeness

N/A

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