Suspended sentence for ‘gassing Jews’ posting

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A Vienna man was given a nine-month suspended sentence after posting anti-Semitic statements on the internet.A court in the capital heard today (Weds) how the 46-year-old wrote “all Jews should be gassed as in 1938” in the discussion forum of the Kronen Zeitung newspaper’s website.The accused also posted “they should be put against the wall […]

Austrian’s yacht stolen in Croatia

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Police in Croatia have begun an investigation after an Austrian reported his yacht has been stolen in Adriatic coastal town Opatija.Online news platform Index reported today (Weds) that the man, 30, told cops that his 11-metre-long yacht had disappeared from the town’s Icici marina yesterday or on Monday night.The yacht is an eight-year-old Performance 1107 […]

Austrian and Slovene foreign ministers to meet next month

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Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger and his Slovene counterpart Samuel Zbogar will meet on 16 March in Vienna, it was announced yesterday (Weds).Slovene news agency STA said yesterday that Zbogar would raise the situation of the Slovene minority in Carinthia at the meeting, including failure to put up bilingual place name signs […]