When I first saw this translation, I thought it must have been another version of the story I posted yesterday about an Afghan culture-enricher punching a female Austrian soldier. However, this incident took place in a different part of Austria, and it was a Somali resisting deportation who attacked a police girl. An Afghan was also involved in the incident — he escaped from police custody and was on the lam for a while.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from Heute:

Deportation escalated— Policewoman injured in neck

by Matthias Lauber
August 1, 2022

Deportation of two men on Monday in Ohlsdorf (Gmunden District) escalates: A policewoman injured in the neck.

At noon, authorities were executing a deportation order against a Somali and an Afghan (26). One fled, the other resisted arrest and attacked the officer.

The police searched the surrounding fields and woods by helicopter for the fleeing man.

He was finally found in Gmunden, a few kilometers away, and will now be deported as planned, reported District Police Commander Gerhard Steiger in a conversation with a district news program.

Policewoman fortunately only lightly injured

According to a police broadcast, initially, a 32-year-old asylum-seeker from Somalia was arrested. He resisted violently and slightly injured a policewoman. Then the authorities tried to arrest a second asylum-seeker, a 26-year-old who reportedly became physical in the course of the action. He was able to flee into a nearby patch of woods shortly beforehand.

Since the Afghan had a Stanley knife, the Cobra Task Force, SIG Forces, a police helicopter, a drone team, and a service dog handler, as well as several district patrols were also used in the search. Based on a tip from the asylum center, the fugitive was finally arrested shortly before 4pm in the esplanade in Gmunden, and then taken to the police detention center in Linz. There is the presumption of innocence.