Vienna (OTS) – “In the hearing on the youth report, we found that our young people are reacting very strongly to the current stresses: They are worried about their personal future, are confronted with economic uncertainty and extreme inflation – and they are experiencing all of this after the Corona crisis excessive measures and the deprivation of freedom by the black-green coalition,” explained FPÖ family and women’s spokesperson NAbg. Rosa Ecker today in her speech in the National Council on the report on the situation of youth in Austria. The world around them has changed drastically; young people used to have the feeling and security of being able to build something for themselves: “This confidence was taken away from them. Many want to move out of their parents’ house, but don’t have the family background to do so and doing it alone has become almost impossible.”
Ecker also quoted statements from youth researcher Prof. Heinzlmaier, who was the author of the study at the hearing in Parliament and identified a feeling of disappointment among young people and noted a “spiral of silence” especially when it comes to the topic of migration, as many young people are afraid of having their opinions deviate from the mainstream to express opinion. “Asylum, migration and Islam are topics of fear, especially for girls and young women, as they fear negative consequences. And in fact there are incidents every day in which girls and young women are approached and often threatened by young men who appear to be foreign. If someone intervenes, it usually ends in violence. Young people are beaten and robbed, and more and more acts of violence are committed by young people or even children. These are the sad facts!” says Ecker.
In Vienna, for example, our young people have to experience gang terror and girls are often vulnerable to rape in public spaces. “What is scandalous is that the perpetrators, most of whom have a foreign background, often do not have to fear any punishment because of their age. “All of this leads to further restrictions on our young people because they have to worry about their own safety in their own homeland, where others are supposedly seeking protection,” the liberal MP continued.
Since the ÖVP has repeatedly publicly spoken out in favor of reducing the age of criminal responsibility, but had already voted against a corresponding FPÖ motion with this content today, Ecker submitted this liberal motion again. “That was a second chance with which the ÖVP could have saved its badly damaged credibility – but it fell over with a crash while lying down,” said Ecker about the fact that the ÖVP voted against her application and thus a second time today against the reduction criminal responsibility was true.
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