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Prohibited Vienna demonstration ends with 14 arrested

Protestors set a police car and a shop ablaze as police tried to break up an illegal demonstration against Vienna’s Corporation Ball organised by right-wing student unions.

Some are now facing charges of assault and battery and resisting arrest after clashes as last Friday evening, police said.

They added some people had also been injured.

Around 500 people had gathered at Christian Broda square in the capital early in the evening, and police began to break them up at 8pm.

Officers also stopped demonstrators who tried to regroup in the inner city but allowed small demonstrations at Albertina square and Sigmund Freud-Park.

Left-wing student and youth groups accused police of using excessive violence and threatening demonstrators while Didi Zach, the Vienna spokesman for the Austrian Communist Party (KPÖ), attacked the police’s alleged use of water cannon and tear-gas and arrest of demonstrators.

He said the protestors had only wanted to express their anger over "the meeting of the crème de la crème of domestic and European radical right-wing extremists."

Werner Herbert, an MP and head of the Freedom Party’s workers’ organisation (AUF), said the demonstration had been "an unrestrained orgy of violence by activists without scruples" that had had "nothing to do with civil rights or freedom of assembly."

He also demanded the resignation of Green MP Karl Öllinger, who, according to what Herbert called reliable eye-witnesses, had attended the demonstration.

Austrian Times

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