Austria / Higher Regional Court Vienna / 18 Bs 339/18m

Country

Austria

Title

Austria / Higher Regional Court Vienna / 18 Bs 339/18m

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Year

2018

Decision/ruling/judgment date

Thursday, December 13, 2018

Incident(s) concerned/related

Incitement to violence or hatred

Related Bias motivation

Religion
Migrant status

Groups affected

Muslims
Refugees & asylum seekers

Court/Body type

National Court

Court/Body

Vienna Court of Appeal (Oberlandesgericht Wien)

Key facts of the case

A women posted several statements her two Facebook profiles over a two-month period: She called refugees "human garbage" as well "deranged, criminal, escaped murderers". She called Muslims "human shit " and commented that "these children are programmed to hate from an early age on. To kill. Muslims can do nothing else. " In response to the birth of the Viennese New Year's Baby 2018 she posted: "We do not want asshole Muslim children.[...] Keep yourself the fuck Islam with its parasitic minus-humans."

Main reasoning/argumentation

not publicly available

Is the case related to the application of the Framework Decision on Racism and Xenophobia, the Racial Equality Directive?

Key issues (concepts, interpretations) clarified by the case

not publicly available

Results (sanctions, outcome) and key consequences or implications of the case

The Higher Regional Court found that this posting amounts to incitement to hatred according to § 283 of the Austrian Criminal Code.

Key quotation in original language and its unofficial translation into English with reference details

not publicly available

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