Member for

12 years 5 months
Year
Report data for country
Cases Perpetrators were Sentenced
1
Cases Prosecuted
38
Cases Recorded by Police
59
Explanation to the total figures recorded
Figures represent the total number of offences with xenophobic/racist, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic motives. Austria provides hate crime data disaggregated by bias motivation, and separately, by crime type. Data broken down by bias motivation only is presented here. Data includes crimes of incitement to hatred.
Bias motivations and crime types
Mandated bias motivation
Crime types figures
Type of Crime
Cases Recorded by Police
37
Mandated bias motivation
Crime types figures
Type of Crime
Cases Recorded by Police
2
Type of Crime
Cases Recorded by Police
16
Mandated bias motivation
Crime types figures
Type of Crime
Cases Recorded by Police
4
NPC
Description Type
Reports
Organization Report

Official figures record 37 racist/xenophobic crimes.

Bias motivation
Description Type
Reports
Organization Report

Official figures record 18 anti-Semitic crimes.

Bias motivation
Description Type
Reports
Organization Report

Offficial figures record four anti-Muslim hate crimes.

NGO
Description Type
Reports
Organization Report

The Centre for Work against Ethnic Discrimination (ZARA) reported one murder and two physical assaults involving serious injury against members of the same family of Romanian heritage in Traun; five additional physical assaults, two of which involved serious injury; and two cases of threats. The victims were mainly of African origin, and two were of German origin.

Description Type
Reports
Organization Report

The Centre for Work against Ethnic Discrimination (ZARA) reported one physical assault, motivated by an anti-Semitic bias.

Bias Motivation
Description Type
Reports
Organization Report

The Centre for Work against Ethnic Discrimination (ZARA) reported three cases of threats, one of which also involved physical assault against a Muslim woman that resulted in serious injuries; and one case of attempted arson and graffiti on the prayer house of the Turkish-Islamic association ATIB in Kufstein, Tyrol.

Bias Motivation
IGO
Organization Name
Description Type
Developments
Source
Universal Periodic Review
Organization Report

The UN Human Rights Council, in its Universal Periodic Review, encouraged Austria to establish a comprehensive system for recording and monitoring racist crimes. It also encouraged increased efforts to combat violence and discrimination against Roma.

Holy See
Description Type
Reports
Organization Report

The Holy See reported one incident of anti-Christian graffiti on a house.