In Graz, a pro-Palestinian meeting took place at Südtirolerplatz on Saturday despite an official ban. When the police broke up the demonstration, there was a scandal.
As the Styria State Police Directorate announced in the evening, around 30 men and women came to the protest. After the police intervened, the group broke up again, but an incident subsequently occurred.
Insulted and injured in the face
The meeting participants left Südtirolerplatz in small groups towards Herrengasse, where they met around 30 other people who expressed their solidarity with them. A young Palestinian verbally insulted a police officer there, came back after being turned away and slightly injured the officer in the face. “He was then arrested on suspicion of attempting to resist state authority. Investigations into the matter are ongoing,” said the police.
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Hardly any participants in front of the Kunsthaus
At around 4 p.m., the number of police, media people and passers-by on Südtirolerplatz in front of the Grazer Kunsthaus was significantly larger than the number of participants in the meeting. They shouted “Free, free Palestine” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine must be free” several times and waved flags.
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Some of the gathering participants wore Palestinian scarves or T-shirts with Palestine prints. An older woman told journalists that she had been to Palestine three times for three months and knew what oppression was. She therefore wants to show solidarity.
2023-10-14 21:01:11
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