{"id":1201906,"date":"2022-01-09T13:34:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T18:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1201906"},"modified":"2022-01-09T13:34:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T18:34:24","slug":"authoritarian-austria-40000-protest-in-vienna-as-corona-apartheid-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/authoritarian-austria-40000-protest-in-vienna-as-corona-apartheid-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Authoritarian Austria: 40,000 Protest in Vienna as \u2018Corona Apartheid\u2019 Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" 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<!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237600636-e1641734118151-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Around 40,000 people took the streets of Vienna on Saturday to protest COVID-19 restrictions in Austria, as a system of \u201cCorona Apartheid\u201d continues to operate in the EU country.<\/p>\n<p>The German-speaking nation \u2014 which is still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/19\/austria-unvaccinated-could-face-prison-as-country-locks-down-and-announces-vaccine-mandate\/\">threatening<\/a> to implement mandatory vaccination for the entirety of its population \u2014 is currently restricting the movements and activities of its unvaccinated population in a way previously described as a system of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/15\/corona-apartheid-austria-imposes-stay-at-home-lockdown-unvaccinated\/\">Corona Apartheid<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>While being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krone.at\/2598995\">described<\/a> as mostly peaceful by&nbsp;<em>Kronen Zeitung<\/em>, a number of demonstrators were arrested on suspicion of resisting police, according to the paper.<\/p>\n<p>There were also reports of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krone.at\/2598589\">firecrackers<\/a> being thrown into the crowd of protesters, with the mood at the rally reportedly being quite tense.<\/p>\n<p>Interior Minister Gerhard Karner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krone.at\/2598995\">commended<\/a> the police for having \u201conce again proven their professionalism\u201d and that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krone.at\/2598589\">their<\/a> \u201cconsistent intervention against violent criminals\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krone.at\/2598995\">showed<\/a> \u201cwhat great challenges the police have to overcome in the context of such demonstrations.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAbove all, the different field of participants \u2014 families with children, but also soccer hooligans and identities marching next to each other \u2014 demands top performance from the officers,\u201d Karner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krone.at\/2598995\">continued<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A further demonstration is to be held in&nbsp;Innsbruck on Sunday, with speeches from a number of senior members of the Freiheitliche Partei \u00d6sterreichs, or Freedom Party of Austria.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Austria to Deactivate COVID Passes After Six Months in Bid to Push Boosters <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vBRrR7oDJI\">https:\/\/t.co\/vBRrR7oDJI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1479409981078360069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Unvaccinated individuals in Austria are currently under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/31\/austria-to-extend-segregation-lockdown-for-unvaccinated-due-to-omicron-variant\/\">rolling lockdowns<\/a>, which the government has promised to keep going indefinitely ahead of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/19\/austria-unvaccinated-could-face-prison-as-country-locks-down-and-announces-vaccine-mandate\/\">plans<\/a> to make vaccination against the Chinese coronavirus mandatory.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Austria\u2019s unjabbed face the future possibility of hefty fines and possible prison time should they remain unvaccinated.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The government\u2019s plans to implement a vaccine mandate are suddenly experiencing significant difficulties, however.<\/p>\n<p>While so-called \u201cbroad\u201d controls will come into force as planned in early February, the use of the national vaccination register will not be legally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krone.at\/2597921\">possible<\/a> until after April 1st as a result of apparent miscommunication on the part of the government.<\/p>\n<p>Other measures the government planned to implement cannot be implemented at all, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krone.at\/2597921\">according<\/a> to a&nbsp;<em>Kronen Zeitung<\/em> report, including the expansion of the nation\u2019s&nbsp;central patient index \u201cto include people who are registered in Austria but do not have a social security number\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>While the country\u2019s Health Minister has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krone.at\/2598181\">defended<\/a> the government\u2019s actions regarding the botched measures, one top politician in the country has suggested that it may be time to rethink the mandate entirely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if the Constitutional Court said in one year that it was unconstitutional? That would be a disaster,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krone.at\/2598814\">said<\/a> the governor of the Austrian state of Burgenland,&nbsp;Hans Peter Doskozil, adding that \u201cultimately this form of compulsory vaccination polarizes further and leads to division.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor went on to suggest a system of chargeable PCR tests for unvaccinated individuals be put in place instead of mandatory vaccination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would rather have an indirect vaccination requirement, in which PCR tests for unvaccinated people are subject to a fee,\u201d Doskozil said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe money that comes in would have to flow into the health system for a specific purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Austria: Unvaccinated Could Face Prison as Country Locks Down and Govt Makes Vaccines COMPULSORY <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WMPcDzhJne\">https:\/\/t.co\/WMPcDzhJne<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1461728473160945669?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 40,000 people took the streets of Vienna on Saturday to protest COVID-19 restrictions in Austria, as a system of \u201cCorona Apartheid\u201d continues to operate in the EU country. 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