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Austria: Racist bomb kills gypsies

01 January 1995

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On 5 February four gypsies were killed by a huge bomb explosion when they tried to remove racist graffiti from a road sign. The four men were attempting to remove a mock gravestone which said "Romanies back to India" laid on an underpass leading to a Roma settlement in the Burgenland region. The sign was booby-trapped with explosives attached to go off as soon as anyone attempted to move it.

The area, bordering on Hungary, is home for most of the 40,000 Romas in Austria; a community that has lived in the country for 600 years and one that was decimated in the Nazi holocaust.

On 6 February in the same area another bomb went off when a refuse collector was emptying a dustbin in Stinatz (Brugenland) and seriously injured his hand. A woman then found a letter at a bus stop saying: "Everybody with a Croatian name should go back to Dalmatia. They are not needed in German Austria". The letter was signed by "Bajuwarische Befreiungsarmee" (Army for the Liberation of Bavaria). This same group was responsible for a series of letter bombs sent to anti-racists last autumn.

European, 10.2.95; Guardian, 7.2.85; Independent, 7.2.95; see Statewatch, vol 4 no 6.

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