Kurdish murders in Vienna

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Memorial plaque for the three victims of the Kurdish murders in Vienna
Plaque

An assassination attempt on leading representatives of Iranian Kurds in Vienna on July 13, 1989 is described as the Viennese murder of the Kurds. The head of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan-Iran (DPKI), Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou , his deputy Abdullah Ghaderi-Azar and the Kurdish citizen Fadel Rasoul, who was naturalized in Austria, attended a secret meeting with representatives of the government of Iran in a private apartment in Vienna's 3rd district, Landstrasse about life.

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The DPKI chairman Ghassemlou met representatives of the Iranian regime on the day of the attack in Vienna. The negotiations took place in an apartment on Linke Bahngasse in the 3rd district. During the interview, a killer squad stormed the apartment and shot Ghassemlou and his two companions. The suspects went into hiding in the Iranian embassy in Vienna. Under pressure from Tehran , they were finally allowed to travel to Iran . The Austrian police even escorted them to Vienna International Airport .

Political background

The reason for the suspects to leave the country under police protection were threats from the Iranian government. The then head of the political section of the Foreign Office, Ambassador Erich Maximilian Schmid, said in a TV interview in April 1997 after his retirement that the Iranian ambassador had indicated "with considerable clarity" that "it could be dangerous for the Austrians Iran ”, the suspects should be brought to court in Austria.

In August 1991, the former Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr , who lived in exile in France , declared that Tehran had documents on the illegal Austrian arms deliveries in the Iraqi-Iranian Gulf War from 1980 to 1988 as a further "means of pressure" against Austria . In the Noricum scandal , a week before the attack, a preliminary investigation was initiated against former SPÖ politicians, former Federal Chancellor Fred Sinowatz , former Foreign Minister Leopold Gratz and former Interior Minister Karl Blecha .

In November 1992 the official liability suit of the widow of Ghassemlou in Vienna was dismissed in the third instance. The Republic of Austria certified its organs that there had been “no culpable or illegal behavior”. The two political parties, the Greens and the Liberal Forum, failed in 1997 with their demand for a parliamentary committee of inquiry to clarify possible attempts to cover up the resistance of the coalition parties SPÖ and ÖVP .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The murders of the Kurds in Vienna rocked Austria 25 years ago. Retrieved July 26, 2017 .
  2. ^ The unpunished Kurdish murders in Vienna. Retrieved July 26, 2017 .
  3. ^ Viennese murders of the Kurds: "Kneeling before state terrorism"? Retrieved July 26, 2017 .

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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '13.7 "  N , 16 ° 23' 3.4"  E