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Page 28 Cases: Against ZARA Racism Report 2004
Following examination by ZARA’s legal experts a report is made for defamation and insult. At the time of writing the
court’s investigations as to the real identity of the sender are ongoing.
146 In December 2004 ZARA receives an increasing amount of racist e-mails with falsified sender addresses.
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Direct threats against ZARA members of staff are also being made. For instance, one member of staff with dark skin
receives an e-mail with the subject line: “Little nigger return to Africa”. Investigations result in establishing that the
e-mail was sent from a computer at the University for Economics in Vienna. The university’s IT department assures
their co-operation and starts internal investigations. Shortly before the deadline of the Report for 2004, ZARA is
informed that the university decided to abolish the possibility of sending anonymous e-mails from the library’s public
computers via the internal mail-server. ZARA thanks the university for their co-operation.
147 The following e-mail is sent to ZARA: “EVERY REASONABLE AUSTRIAN/GERMAN LONGS FOR THE TIME
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WHEN THOSE WHO SUPPORTED MIGRANTS AND THEIR VIOLENCE WERE MOST SEVERELY PUNISHED; I’M ALMOST
SURE: THE DAY WILL COME—AND YOUR NAMES ARE KNOWN!”
148 On January 16, 2004, ZARA receives the following anonymous e-mail:
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“Racism—the magic word to organise secure jobs for a few breadless and characterless individuals and financed by
our tax money. ZARA receives public funding, i.e. my money as well. Yet, I have to subordinate to ZARA’s will which
for example expects me to accept the presence of one or more niggers in a pub. What’s with the RIGHT of Austrians
to be among themselves in the pub?? (…) You’re taking money from the very State you then—by means of documented
circumstances—denounce as racist!! (…) Food for thought: Chinese, Japanese, Philippines, Thais and all the rest
of the Asians are also foreigners or am I wrong?? In spite of the insistent inquiries among friends and acquaintances
I couldn’t find anyone who had anything against these people!! Could it be that these people are polite and quiet
and well integrated, that they do their work and haven’t the least ambition to force their culture upon us, the host
country? To which I must add that this culture is by far superior to the Turkish culture and actually quite interesting
for us (…)”
149 In response to the circular sent out as part of ZARA’s campaign “Stop Racism”, Mr. M. sends the following
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e-mail: “(…) why don’t you just take your bimbos, Tschuschn, cumin Turks home with you? There is plenty of want
and misery in our own population. Take care of them first. From many years of experience as a worker I know that
the biggest racist is a foreigner. For them we’re shit Austrians at home in shit Austria. Spare me your do-gooder scam.
Do something useful in your lives and get an honest job.”
150 Mr. T. sends us the following e-mail: “You demand laws against racism. In other words whether I wanted
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to or not I’d be forced by law to arse up to every foreigner or otherwise taken to court. First of all we don’t need
such laws and secondly we get them only because of organisations like yours who with the least knowledge of reality
support all foreigners, no matter whether they’re criminals or dealers.”
151 Another e-mail by Mr. T.: “Now we’ve got it in writing—we are a people of racists, especially when it comes
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to blacks. 1400 black dealers arrested, one of them fixed to the ground by the police until he died when of course
he was actually completely harmless. (…) Something needs to be done against the Austrians’ impertinence. What a
cheek for them to think they can stay among themselves! Foreigners must be entitled by law to go to the pub of their
choice even though this wouldn’t apply to Austrians if they wanted to go to the pubs of foreigners. A great thanks to
the City of Vienna and the Federal government for subsidising organisations like ZARA with Austrian tax money.”
152 In January 2004, Mr. F. sends the following e-mail to ZARA: “I often see ticket controllers who only control
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Austrians or light-skinned people and turn a blind eye on blacks or just pass them without checking their tickets …
so, what am I supposed to do? Write down the name of the controller, send it to you and you then start proceedings
against him for being a racist? Or are you just there for counselling and does one have to make a report oneself?
Awaiting your reply …”
ZARA replies and asks Mr. F. to report actual cases since only then we could look into what was feasible. He doesn’t
write back.
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Mr. S. sends us the following e-mail: “(…) my brother was punched in the eye by a Turk; my father was
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insulted and abused by a Turk after he had caused a traffic accident und blamed my father; I was threatened and
humiliated by Niggers; perhaps you could also analyse the behaviour of the so-called foreigners instead of constantly
bashing just the Austrians.”