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Austria: Bomber sentenced to life

01 March 1999

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Racist bomber, Franz Fuchs, was sentenced to life imprisonment in March after being found guilty at a Graz court of the murder of four Roma and more than a dozen instances of causing grievous bodily harm with bombs. Fuchs, who claimed to be a member of the Bavarian Liberation Front, was responsible for a four year bombing campaign between 1993-1997 involving nearly 30 attacks. His victims included four Roma killed by a booby-trapped bomb at Oberwart in February 1995. A number of prominent anti-racists were also injured by letter bombs (see Statewatch vol 3 no 6; vol 4 nos 1 & 6; vol 5 nos 1, 3, 5 & 6 and vol 6 no 1). Fuchs was arrested in 1997 in his hometown of Gralla, 240 km southwest of Vienna, and exploded a bomb that he was carrying causing him to lose his lower arms. On searching his house police discovered five pipe bombs and a booby-trapped device similar to the one used in the Roma murders. Fuchs, who was excluded from the courtroom for much of the trial after screaming racist slogans when he appeared in the dock, will serve his sentence in a psychiatric unit.

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