Why Were Palestinian Flags on the Spires of the Vienna Votive Church?

The church initially did not notice the incident at all, said the spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Vienna, Michael Prüller, to the APA on Tuesday. "The parish was then made aware of it on Saturday evening." Initial attempts to remove them had failed. On Tuesday afternoon, the flags were then removed with the help of a crane.

The flags were likely put up by unknown individuals on Saturday, presumably during a demonstration by the platform "Palestine Solidarity Austria". Prüller told the "Presse" that the incident was in any case "a misdeed that we do not have to tolerate, because a church is being politically instrumentalized".

(APA/Red.)

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