A Syrian migrant has now been convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison for raping and assaulting a 17-year-old girl in the Salzburg main station in Austria, which is known as the “city of Mozart.”
The incident happened last year after the girl got done visiting a bar with a friend. The convicted man, a 27-year-old unemployed asylum seeker from Syria began speaking to the girl outside the station. Without warning, he grabbed her by the arm and dragged her into a toilet in the station. Once inside, he brutally beat the girl, strangled her, and forcibly raped her “in a particularly degrading manner,” according to the public prosecutor.
The Syrian man stood trial earlier this week in the Salzburg Regional Court. His defense tried to defend the man by claiming that the victim and her friend were drunk and taking drugs.
Despite the efforts from the defense, the Syrian migrant was found guilty, although the verdict can be appealed, according to Austrian news outlet Heute.
The city’s main train station has become a crime hotspot in recent years, and police have reacted by stepping up patrols.
Austria itself has struggled with an increase in crime involving migrants. As Remix reported earlier this year, 17 underage migrants were arrested for gang-raping a Viennese 12-year-old schoolgirl over the course of a year. These same minors were released just a day after their arrest.
Also this year, an Afghan migrant was arrested for raping and strangling a 14-year-old girl to death inside his apartment in Vienna. Also this year, two Algerian migrants raped two girls, 14 and 15, at gunpoint after locking them inside an apartment.
At the beginning of this year, three sex workers in Vienna were brutally murdered by an Afghan migrant, who butchered the women after he was refused entry. The police described “terrible images” due to the crime.
One of the most famous cases dates back to 2022, in which 13-year-old Leonie was gang-raped and murdered by three Afghan migrants in Vienna.