Austria: Anti-immigration rally met with Antifa counter-protest in Vienna

An anti-immigration rally in Vienna was met by an anti-fascist counter-protesters on Saturday.

 Co-founder of 'The Austrians' ('Die Osterreicher') group and Identitarian activist Martin Sellner said that Austria should give up on the "population exchange" policy.

 "It has gone too far. We see integration was a complete failure in the city of Vienna, everywhere in Austria", he said.

 Activists of Antifa and the Black Block groups and their sympathizers held a counter-protest considering the protesters going against the human rights and advocating for fascism.

 "They should not be here in Vienna. Vienna is open for everybody, who is living here, independent of religions, origin or skin colour," said a counter-protester.

 Police reinforcement was deployed across the city to avoid clashes between protesters.

 According to national statistics office data for 2018, roughly 16 percent of Austria's population has foreign citizenship. During the migration crisis in Europe, Austria took in about one percent of its population in asylum seekers.