Sportsman complains about racist slander by policemen

Alert DateNovember 22, 2006 Country: Austria Address: Vienna General Type: Racist violence Racism and discrimination phenomena: Anti-migrant/xenophobia
Groups affected / Interested in: Ethnic minorities Key socio-economic/institutional areas: Policing - law enforcement
Victims Data
Victims Nationality/Ethnic Origin N/A
Victims Gender Male, Female
Victims Age N/A
Victims Number 2
Fatalities - deaths N/A
Perpetrators Data
Perpetrators Nationality/Ethnic Origin Austrian
Perpetrator Gender Male
Perpetrator Age N/A
Perpetrators Number 4
Extremist/Organised Group Violence No

A Turkish born Austrian wanted to seek help and file a complaint against a drunken man who had threatened him and his wife with a baseball bat. The former participant in the Olympics says that the four police men at the Viennese police station that he had turned to sent him and his wife away using racist epithets (“Scheißkanaken”, meaning about the same as “fucking wogs”). The police took up internal investigations on November 22nd, 2006 and assigned the accused policemen to in-door duties without contact with clients.

Source: http://wien.orf.at/stories/152878 (2011-10-05)