Official figures record 59 racist/xenophobic crimes.
Official figures record 27 cases of anti-Semitic crimes.
Official figures record five anti-Muslim hate crimes, including an attack against a mosque.
The Centre for Work against Ethnic Discrimination (ZARA) reported two cases of threats, against an African man and a Peruvian woman; seven physical assaults, including against a man of Turkish origin by a group; a Peruvian woman who was with her daughter; a Chechen family, also involving a threat with a knife; a couple in a café; a Jamaican man; and against a man of Turkish origin, which included a threat using a dog.
The Forum Against Anti-Semitism reported 32 cases of graffiti, two cases of damage to property, six physical assaults and 38 cases of threats by email or telephone.
The Centre for Work against Ethnic Discrimination (ZARA) reported one case where six pigs’ heads were left outside a mosque and the prayer area was sprayed with pig’s blood.
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) recommended that Austria increase efforts to prosecute and punish forms of discrimination, including hate crime, and to intensify the training for prosecutors, judges, lawyers, other judicial and police officers in the criminal justice system on the principles of the Convention.
The Holy See reported three arson attacks against churches that took place on the same night; 74 cases of church desecration including 55 that also involved theft of church property and collection money. Austrian authorities reported back that religious bias motivation has not been registered in those cases.
ODIHR observes that Austria has not reported on hate crimes separately from cases of hate speech.