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Attempted Rape, Serious Bodily Harm, Six Alias Names: Deported Afghan Has Long Criminal Record

Der verurteilte Straftäter wurde nach Kabul zurückgeführt.
Der verurteilte Straftäter wurde nach Kabul zurückgeführt. ©APA/HARALD SCHNEIDER
The Afghan who was deported from Austria to Kabul since the Taliban took power had been repeatedly convicted of attempted rape and serious bodily harm.

The Afghan who was deported to Kabul last Tuesday was convicted of a moral crime in Vienna in February 2017. At that time, he received an unconditional prison sentence of two and a half years for attempted rape. Another conviction followed. It was the first deportation from Austria to Afghanistan since the radical Islamic Taliban took power in 2021.

Attempted Rape at Vienna's Danube Canal

In April 2016, the man approached a student around midnight. She accompanied him to the Danube Canal, where, according to court findings, he became intrusive. The woman fended him off and walked away, but the man followed her, attacked her, and attempted to force sexual acts with violence.

Man Reportedly Mentally Ill According to Legal Representative

In the subsequent court hearing, the man was certified as having a "low domestic connection." He had lived in France under six different aliases before coming to Austria in 2009 and applying for asylum. In 2011, he was granted subsidiary protection, which was revoked after the first final conviction. A second followed in 2019. For serious bodily harm, the man, reportedly born in 1994, received 16 months unconditionally. Further asylum applications by the man were rejected by the Federal Administrative Court. In the end, the deportation of the 31-year-old, who was formally subject to an entry ban, was carried out.

His legal representative, Ralf Niederhammer, criticized this in the "Standard." The man is mentally ill and suffers from delusions with partially pseudo-religious content, which could put him in life-threatening danger in Islamist Afghanistan.

Further Deportations in Preparation

According to the Ministry of the Interior, further deportations are in preparation. This "hard and necessary path" will be consistently continued, Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) recently affirmed. Chancellor Christian Stocker (ÖVP) emphasized that there is zero tolerance for people who have forfeited their right to stay through criminal acts.

(APA/Red)

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