Indicator history

Looking at official data for 2009 and 2010, the largest share in recorded incidents is held by right wing extremist incidents; racist/xenophobic, anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic incidents recorded account for a considerably smaller proportion (e.g. in 2009 356 right wing extremist vs. 49 xenophobic/racist, 12 anti-Semitic, zero anti-Islamic incidents). In 2010, a total of 580 right wing extremist, xenophobic, racist, islamophobic, anti-Semitic and other related offences were recorded. An offence can consist of several incidents. 282 offences could be solved (48.6 per cent). Out of 580 offences there were 57.8 per cent right wing extremist, 11 per cent xenophobic/racist, 4.6 per cent anti-Semitic and 1.4 per cent anti-Islamic motivated. The motivation concerning the remaining 25.2 per cent was either unclear or amibiguous.

It emerges that the number of officially recorded incidents is lower than the number of incidents based on unofficial sources: the NGO ZARA documented for 2009 798 and for 2010 745 racist (incl. religiously motivated) incidents; the NGO Helping Hands Graz documented 392 and in 2010 389 incidents. In comparison, in 2009 the official figure for racist/xenophobic, anti-Islamic and anti-Semitic incidents is 61; after adding right wing extremist incidents and ‘other’ incidents, the total amount is 453 and in 2010 580 incidents.

Sources: http://www.bmi.gv.at/cms/BMI_Verfassungsschutz/BVT_VSB_2011_online.pdf; http://www.bmi.gv.at/cms/BMI_Verfassungsschutz/BVT_VSB_2010_20100401_Onlinefassung.pdf; http://www.zara.or.at/_doc/2011/Zara_RassismusReport_2010.pdf; http://www.zara.or.at/_doc/2010/ZARA_RassismusReport2009.pdf