“12,000 Syrians ‘celebrate’ the fall of Assad with blank pistols”

Thousands of Syrians gathered today for a ‘joy rally’ in Vienna’s inner city to celebrate the overthrow of Syria’s long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad. The registered demonstration, which was attended by thousands of people, is now completely out of control. According to internal police estimates, the 3,000 registered participants have now become more than 12,000,” said the liberal security spokesman NAbg. Hannes Amesbauer.

According to current information, the police no longer have a handle on the huge influx of Syrians from all districts towards the city center because there is a shortage of personnel. “Officials who were actually supposed to secure the football game Austria against SCR Altach have already been withdrawn to downtown Vienna. While the media trivializes reports of fireworks and firecrackers, shots of joy are already being fired from blank guns. There is already complete chaos!” said Amesbauer.

According to the Austria Press Agency (APA), the large demonstration was registered by the “Free Syrian Community in Austria in solidarity with the Syrian revolution” in order to support their “expelled people in the camps and their right to return to their newly liberated villages”. The FPÖ -Security spokesman sees in this celebratory mood of the Syrians in Austria the desire to return to their homeland, to relieve the burden on the Austrian social system and to give Syrian knife specialists new development opportunities in their home country to enable.

“The really interesting thing about this rally, however, is to see how haphazardly ÖVP Interior Minister Karner and his Vienna police chief Pürstl are acting and whether the same standards are being set at this rally as at patriotic and anti-government demonstrations. The ÖVP and SPÖ leaders apparently don’t care at all about the Catholic holiday of the Conception of the Virgin Mary and the economic situation of the Vienna Christmas markets, nor do they care about security in our country,” said Amesbauer.