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Attacks on asylum facilities in Austria sharply increase in 2016: official

Xinhua, September 24, 2016 Adjust font size:

The number of attacks on asylum facilities in Austria has seen a significant increase in the first half of 2016, Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka confirmed Friday.

Austria Press Agency reported the figures, as given by Sobotka following a question from a Greens member in parliament, as 24 attacks that took place in the first six months of the year.

In 2015 only 25 such attacks took place during the entire year, representing close to a doubling for the current year.

The nature of the attacks have ranged from graffiti of a xenophobic or National Socialistic nature, stones thrown through windows, hate posts or threats made online, and arson attacks.

Sobotka said perpetrators have only been identified in three of the 24 attacks, down from the 28 percent of cases were perpetrators were identified last year. Endit