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Majority say asylum seekers 'more criminal than other people'

Austria’s struggle to present itself as a non-xenophobic country is set to continue as a poll revealed almost one in two Austrians think asylum seekers are "dishonest".

Viennese public opinion research agency Karmasin found that 49 per cent of Austrians consider asylum seekers as generally "dishonest" people. A majority of 53 per cent told pollsters they agreed with the claim that asylum seekers "are more criminal than other society groups", according to political weekly profil.

The magazine revealed that the Karmasin study also showed only one in four Austrians think asylum seekers "need protection", while a meagre 16 per cent said they were "willing to integrate".

Karmasin interviewed around 500 Austrians for their survey.

These findings come after 94.45 per cent of residents of the southern Burgenland districts of Jennersdorf, Güssing and Oberwart taking part in a referendum rejected plans to build an asylum seekers’ centre in the area.

Burgenland Social Democratic (SPÖ) Governor Hans Niessl ordered the March referendum after federal People’s Party (ÖVP) Interior Minister Maria Fekter failed to inform the provincial government of her talks about the construction of such a centre with Eberau’s ÖVP Mayor Walter Strobl.

It would have been the third of its kind in Austria after centres in Thalham, Upper Austria, and Lower Austrian town Traiskirchen.

Around 15,000 people have applied for asylum in Austria last year. Eighty per cent of these applications were rejected.

Austrian Times

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