Police brutality against Muslim children under the pretext of counter-terrorism in Austria

<div class="post-content"> <div class="fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;"><div class="fusion-builder-row fusion-row"><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-1" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><div class="fusion-text"> <h4 class="entry-title fusion-post-title fusion-responsive-typography-calculated" data-fontsize="18" data-lineheight="23.94px" style="--fontSize: 18; line-height: 1.33; --minFontSize: 18;"><i>Nura Al-Izzedin describes the chilling situation in Austria and how the dehumanisation of Muslim children has made them vulnerable to state violence with little to no public outcry. She argues that t</i><i>he criminalisation of Austrian children under the pretext of ‘counter-terrorism’ and for the purposes of deportations must be met with equal opposition.<br> </i></h4> </div> <h5 data-fontsize="16" style="--fontSize: 16; line-height: 1.13; --minFontSize: 16;" data-lineheight="18.08px" class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated"><em>This article is published as part of CAGE’s new series of expert essays ‘<a href="http://cage.ngo/perspectives">Perspectives on the War On Terror</a>‘. </em><em>You can&nbsp;<a href="https://64603522.sibforms.com/serve/MUIEAJuBMwgYLupC-_ke0hQCoNsJqYDY5hXNvJFZBPVkiu4vdRfigH0GT69tj-aQ3v9-yyS8EXn-Gs3HBiO7SSSn_NrXw73Uoq62jZsab1LolBOH5-d2Auccyl3cqnvxukCgd6cQFieqEFmoMK-B8N1dg2S-pkY6zr_Y-U-pfDcnC2uMpAHHC0poyti3WDvqXU5aNMd_cOwi_gP_">sign up</a>&nbsp;to our Perspective mailing list&nbsp;<a href="https://64603522.sibforms.com/serve/MUIEAJuBMwgYLupC-_ke0hQCoNsJqYDY5hXNvJFZBPVkiu4vdRfigH0GT69tj-aQ3v9-yyS8EXn-Gs3HBiO7SSSn_NrXw73Uoq62jZsab1LolBOH5-d2Auccyl3cqnvxukCgd6cQFieqEFmoMK-B8N1dg2S-pkY6zr_Y-U-pfDcnC2uMpAHHC0poyti3WDvqXU5aNMd_cOwi_gP_">here</a>&nbsp;so you never miss a new essay.</em></h5> <h4 data-fontsize="18" style="--fontSize: 18; 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background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-2" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On 9</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">th</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> November 2020, Austrian police <a href="https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000121546906/50-razzien-gegen-strukturen-der-muslimbruderschaft-in-oesterreich ,13.12.2020">stormed</a> children’s bedrooms at 5am.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After the raids, Austria’s Interior Minister Nehammer proudly revealed at a press conference that he was “</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">present during the action taken against political Islam</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">”, where more than 930 police officers were on duty, as part of Austrian security services “<a href="https://www.cage.ngo/egyptian-and-israeli-complicity-the-unfolding-of-a-major-crackdown-on-muslims-in-vienna"><em>Operation Luxor</em></a>“. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Special forces, including WEGA, Cobra, the Air Police, various observation units, explosives units and sniffer dogs participated, with Muslim children being traumatised by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS7Jcemlgug">the raid</a>.</span></p> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-last" style="width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><span class=" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none"></span><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-3" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><h5 data-fontsize="16" style="--fontSize: 16; line-height: 1.13; --minFontSize: 16;" data-lineheight="18.08px" class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated">Karl Nehammer, Austrian Minister of the Interior</h5> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-3 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-4" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to prosecutors, all of the accused were under surveillance for at least one year and were observed for <a href="https://orf.at/stories/3189079/">over 21,000 hours</a>, meaning the police knew the affected persons were not in possession of weapons or any other dangerous objects at home and were aware of the presence of children and babies in the family homes.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It was also then revealed that no weapons or explosives were found. <a href="https://bridge.georgetown.edu/research/xinjiang-and-kristallnacht-in-austria-freedom-of-religion-under-threat/">No arrests were made</a>, despite highly aggressive interrogations.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The manner by which the police carried out the raids were highly questionable, particularly as the police had enough information prior to the raids being carried out, to not warrant such a needlessly aggressive raid. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Due to that the impacted persons reported that they and their lawyers weren’t given access to the files against them </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">for over two months</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, until 22nd of January 2021.</span></p> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-4 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first" style="width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><span class=" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-2 hover-type-none"></span><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-5" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><h5 style="text-align: center; --fontSize: 16; line-height: 1.13; --minFontSize: 16;" data-fontsize="16" data-lineheight="18.08px" class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated"><a href="https://www.cage.ngo/egyptian-and-israeli-complicity-the-unfolding-of-a-major-crackdown-on-muslims-in-vienna">Read more: Egyptian and Israeli complicity: The unfolding of a major crackdown on Muslims in Vienna</a></h5> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-5 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-last" style="width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-6" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p class="entry-title fusion-post-title" data-fontsize="26" data-lineheight="42"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Through the excessive and unnecessary use of force in the raids, the police willingly and purposely chose to violate the principle of acting within the best interests of children in those homes</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – as enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, among many other domestic and regional legal instruments. </span></p> <p class="entry-title fusion-post-title" data-fontsize="26" data-lineheight="42"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Police broke the doors and windows of the family’s houses and threatened the children with guns. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nonetheless, they regarded these draconian measures as legitimate and proportional. </span></p> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-6 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-7" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p><span style="font-weight: 400; color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">After studying the search warrants, it became evident that the raids were based on an ideological and political <a href="https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000122819811/erster-bericht-der-dokustelle-politischer-islam-koennte-juristisches-nachspiel-haben">study of the Muslim Brotherhood by Lorenzo Vidino</a>, a study which is <a href="https://bridge.georgetown.edu/research/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino">already considered contentious</a> in public discourse.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some of the questions the police were asking the accused include: </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">How many friendships do you and your family maintain with autochthonous (long-established) or non-Muslim Austrians?”</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – begging the question why it is relevant for the police to distinguish between non-Muslim Austrians and Muslim Austrians – as well as “</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Does your wife wear a headscarf?</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">” and</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Should Austrian children or children who grew up in Austria be brought up to be martyrs</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">?”, underlining the ideological and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Islamophobic</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> nature of the raids.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is important to point out that this operation, one of the largest ever carried out in Austria and even Europe at the time, was <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/austria-palestine-ngo-crackdown-islamophobia-tyranny">wholly political</a> in nature.</span></p> </div><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-8" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One further question asked was whether the individuals were: “</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">In favour of waking the wife and children up for prayer times at around 4am?” – </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">ignoring&nbsp; the fact that the police were invading the family’s home at 5am to ask this question. </span></p> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-7 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-first" style="width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-9" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It goes without saying that </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">children are suffering from psychological trauma since the raids; witness accounts even recall heavily-armed men wearing masks were pointing a gun at children and shouting, “target person spotted”.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A girl who was victimised by the raids stated that </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I never felt so unsafe, especially in my own home. The police refused to allow me to use the toilet with the door closed, forcing me to use the toilet with police officers watching. These raids destroyed</span></i><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> my life.</span></i><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">”</span></i></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another boy recalled that </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“He was also wearing a mask so I only saw his eyes. Initially, my first thought was that he was a terrorist”</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.&nbsp; </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Additionally, parents have reported that their children start screaming and crying in the middle of the night, while the c</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">hildren have said that the police took away their pocket money and electronic devices, meaning they could no longer continue with distance-learning, depriving them their right to education.</span></p> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-8 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-last" style="width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-10" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><h3 style="text-align: center; --fontSize: 26; line-height: 1.62;" data-fontsize="26" data-lineheight="42.12px" class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated"><span style="color: #999999;"><em>“Additionally, parents have reported that their children start screaming and crying in the middle of the night, while the children have said that the police took away their pocket money and electronic devices, meaning they could no longer continue with distance-learning”</em></span></h3> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-9 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-11" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Most families’ bank accounts were frozen and cash taken away, leaving them with nothing, and begging the question as to how they might sustain themselves. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On the 3rd February, Amnesty International published a report entitled</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Human Rights Guide for Researching Racial and Religious Discrimination in Counterterrorism in Europe</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> which states that “discrimination against Muslims in the counterterrorism context in Europe is a longstanding human rights concern. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the last two decades&nbsp;</span>lawful&nbsp;Muslim religious, cultural, and political activities and affiliations have been construed as <a href="https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/publications/a-human-rights-guide-for-researching-racial-and-religious-discrimination-in-counterterrorism-in-europe">“dangerous” enough to justify significant restrictions</a> on individual rights.</p> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-3 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;"><div class="fusion-builder-row fusion-row"><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-10 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-12" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><h3 style="text-align: center; --fontSize: 26; line-height: 1.62;" data-fontsize="26" data-lineheight="42.12px" class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated"><b>On dehumanising Muslim children</b></h3> </div><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-13" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It goes without saying that children should never be rendered guilty based on what their parents are being accused of – whether or not the accusations are substantiated.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet as a result of the terror-framing </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">and dehumanisation</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of the affected children, they were subject to the abuse of power of the police – who were themselves excused, meaning that they did not have to answer for their abuses to either a governmental or non-governmental body.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Amnesty International highlighted in its report</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;that<em> “unfortunately, despite widespread acknowledgement of this issue from the UN and other European institutions, discrimination against Muslims has generally received less attention from human rights groups and oversight bodies.”</em> </span></p> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-11 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first" style="width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-14" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-twitter-extracted-i1692797175785785896="true"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">“In the never-ending ‘War on Terror’, Muslims continue to endure ethnic profiling &amp; are disproportionately subjected to surveillance, limitations on their movements, arrest &amp; deportation.” <a href="https://twitter.com/eda_seyhan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@eda_seyhan</a></p> <p>Watch <a href="https://twitter.com/amnesty?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@amnesty</a> research guide launch LIVE at 3pm GMT<img draggable="false" role="img" class="emoji" alt="👇" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/svg/1f447.svg"><a href="https://t.co/oADAZWFbPd">https://t.co/oADAZWFbPd</a></p> <p>— amnestypress (@amnestypress) <a href="https://twitter.com/amnestypress/status/1356976383793184769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2021</a></p> </blockquote> <p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-12 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-last" style="width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-15" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This also encapsulates the situation in Austria right now. <a href="https://www.zara.or.at/de/wissen/aktuelles/n/news/vBZvWUEfN/Operation_Luxor">“</a></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ZARA” is the only NGO, which publicly condemned Operation Luxor thus far, and showed its support towards the newly-founded civil society initiative “Protect the Children”. </span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Protect the Children</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> aims to raise awareness of childrens’ and human rights violations observed and documented in the context of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Operation Luxor, while </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">placing it in the context of counter-terrorism/extremism in Europe.<br> It also envisions to counteract </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Operation Luxor</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by empowering the impacted persons and community involved.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Besides ZARA and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Protect the Children no other children’s or human rights organisation has yet publicly condemned the treatment of Muslim children as police actions were taken under the pretext of “counterterrorism”</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> To compound matters further, all the children belong to the same religious minority here, meaning the trauma permeates past the individual and into the community level.&nbsp;</span></p> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-4 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;"><div class="fusion-builder-row fusion-row"><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-13 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-16" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><h3 style="text-align: center; --fontSize: 26; line-height: 1.62;" data-fontsize="26" data-lineheight="42.12px" class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated"><b>On child deportation</b></h3> </div><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-17" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p>One is filled with slightly more hope when Austrians recently expressed their outrage at Interior Minister Nehammer’s order to deport school children to Armenia and Georgia.</p> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-14 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-first" style="width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-18" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Journalists and politicians from different sectors strongly <a href="https://zackzack.at/2021/01/28/so-endete-das-abschiebedrama-um-5-machte-die-polizei-kurzen-prozess/">condemned the action</a></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.<br> Several members of the National Council and other well-known representatives from politics and the media mingled with demonstrators, also venting their anger via social media.</span></p> <p>Police were present in the middle of the night with reinforcements of the WEGA (special units) including patrol dogs, with about 200 officers to proceed with the deportation of the children. 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--fontSize: 16; line-height: 1.13; --minFontSize: 16;" data-fontsize="16" data-lineheight="18.08px" class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated">Austria WEGA police units clearing the anti-deportation demonstration</h5> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-17 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-last" style="width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-22" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Interior Minister Nehammer, who received backlash after the deportation of one of the children, blamed her mother for “letting it get so far”.</span></p> </div><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-23" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The lawyer of the 12-year-old girl who was deported to Georgia said: “The mother had not broken any laws and, even if she had made mistakes, this would not play a role in weighing up the best interests of the children. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The parents’ behaviour is completely irrelevant from a legal point of view. 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The best interests of the child are paramount and should have been re-examined immediately before the deportation.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is about time that the children victimised by the ‘counter-terror’ raids of 9</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">th</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> November receive equal outcry from the public.</span></p> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-18 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;"><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-5 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;"><div class="fusion-builder-row fusion-row"><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-19 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; 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