Pro-Palestine Protest in Front of Vienna's Main University: Police Deployed in Large Numbers

Around 60 to 65 people had gathered for an unregistered spontaneous demonstration, the police informed the APA. For about two hours, the authorities have been working to dissolve the assembly due to safety concerns, to allow the several hundred students inside the university to leave the building.

Pro-Palestine demonstration blocks university entrances

About 100 officers are on site, and there have been no special incidents so far. "Everything is calm so far," said the police spokesperson. The spokesperson for the University of Vienna, Cornelia Blum, told the APA that the study operations were "possible at any time without restrictions."

The demonstrators sat on the steps in front of the main building. With a microphone and speakers, pro-Palestinian slogans were chanted, as an on-site observation by the APA revealed. If the entrances are clear, further actions will be discussed, the police spokesperson further stated. As long as nothing is blocked, the right to assemble applies.

JöH strongly criticizes the demonstration

The Jewish Austrian Students (JöH) criticized the assembly. "As the elected representation of Jewish students in Austria, we are alarmed when our access to the main university is blocked with Hamas triangles and Intifada calls. We are particularly disappointed with the VSSTÖ Uni Wien, which, as the ÖH chair, expressed 'Full Solidarity!' with this demagogic protest online," said Lia Guttmann and Milli Li Rabinovici, co-presidents of the JöH, in a statement to the APA.

(APA/Red)

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