The charge pointed out that the police were arresting “ordinary” people smugglers for the crime of taking large numbers of illegal immigrants over national borders without papers or clearance in violation of all immigration rules and procedures—and that this was exactly what the Austrian government was now doing in facilitating the mass transfer of illegal immigrants from the Austrian border to Germany.
The Austrian government has provided taxpayer-funded shelters, buses, and trains in order to move hundreds of thousands of “refugees” from the Slovenian-Austrian border up to Germany, effectively taking over the role of people smugglers, but this time with official state backing, the charges added.
This was made worse, he added, because according to his information, at least 300,000 people had already crossed the Austrian border. “But,” he said, “no one really knows how many there are for sure, because none of them have been registered.”
Chancellor Werner Faymann (from the Socialist Party of Austria, SPÖ), Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner (from the Austrian Peoples’ Party, ÖVP), Defense Minister Gerald Klug (SPÖ), and the heads of the Austrian Federal Train service (ÖBB) have all been named as respondents in the FPÖ suit.
