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Staff steal entire kitchen from refugee home

Two men who got a group of refugees to unknowingly help them steal an entire kitchen from a refugee home have been sentenced to 18 months behind bars.

Staff steal entire kitchen from refugee home
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One of the men told the court this week that he had wanted to sell the kitchen to fund his addiction.

Both men, who had criminal records, had been hired by the Interior Ministry to work in the refugee home in Korneuburg, when they spotted an opportunity to make some money.

To add insult to injury, the 28-year-old and 43-year-old employees then paid a group of refugees to help them tear apart the kitchen and load it into the back of a van, unaware the men were stealing it.

Along with the kitchen, they also took laptops and projectors from the home, thefts which in total amounted to €60,000.

“I needed money, to finance my addiction,” the younger man said when he appeared in court, although details of his addictions were not reported.

The older of the two at first tried to claim that the kitchen was “just scrap” but then pleaded guilty.

They have both been sentenced to 18 months in jail.

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Germany issues entry ban to Austrian far-right activist Sellner

Radical Austrian nationalist Martin Sellner has been banned from entering Germany, it emerged on Tuesday, days after he was deported from Switzerland.

Germany issues entry ban to Austrian far-right activist Sellner

Sellner, a leader of Austria’s white pride Identitarian Movement, posted a video of himself on X, formerly Twitter, reading out a letter he said was from the city of Potsdam.

A spokeswoman for the city authorities confirmed to AFP that an EU citizen had been served with a “ban on their freedom of movement in Germany”.

The person can no longer enter or stay in Germany “with immediate effect” and could be stopped by police or deported if they try to enter the country, the spokeswoman said, declining to name the individual for privacy reasons.

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“We have to show that the state is not powerless and will use its legitimate means,” Mike Schubert, the mayor of Potsdam, said in a statement.

Sellner caused an uproar in Germany after allegedly discussing the Identitarian concept of “remigration” with members of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) at a meeting in Potsdam in November.

Reports of the meeting sparked a huge wave of protests against the AfD, with tens of thousands of Germans attending demonstrations across the country.

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Swiss police said Sunday they had prevented a hundred-strong far-right gathering due to be addressed by Sellner, adding that he had been arrested and deported.

The Saturday meeting had been organised by the far-right Junge Tat group, known for its anti-immigration and anti-Islamic views.

The group is also a proponent of the far-right white nationalist Great Replacement conspiracy theory espoused by Sellner’s Identitarian Movement.

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