We pick up criminals that are illegal in the country, and we do nothing. I don’t think that’s a solution.”A final solution, though, will not be forthcoming. European governments will be deeply disappointed with the policies that are to be unveiled in Vienna next week, because they will be no more extreme than their own.The only area where Austria is likely to make a serious impact on EU policy is eastward enlargement. “Apparently”, because not even he can gauge the master puppeteer’s intentions. Jörg Haider likes to keep his closest aides guessing.But Mr Prinzhorn knows enough of the policies that Mr Haider will be pursuing from his lair in Carinthia, where he is provincial governor.
“We say the quota of immigration has to be controlled,” he says.And the immigrants already here had better behave. In an interview last year, Mr Prinzhorn suggested Austrians were less virile than foreigners, because the immigrants were boosting their performance with hormones. He was merely trying to draw attention to abuses of the health system, he now says.Believe it or not, this 56-year-old businessman is the voice of sanity in Mr Haider’s merry troupe, the front man apparently destined to become Vice-Chancellor in a government that is giving the rest of the world the shivers. A Harvard-educated industrialist, Mr Prinzhorn bristles at the mere suggestion that he might be politically incorrect “I have foreign children I have a foreign wife. I have Jewish children,” he says, without elaborating.He is also outraged at the way his own words on the subject of fertility have been twisted. Deep down, the people who brought you posters protesting against æoelig;berfremdung – a 1930s word denoting a country being swamped by aliens – just cannot get enough of them.”We love foreigners, because we are a multicultural country,” Thomas Prinzhorn, tipped to become Europe’s highest-ranking government minister of the far right since 1945, confides to the Independent on Sunday.
European leaders are threatening to throw a cordon sanitaire around Austria, while Israel is considering withdrawal of its ambassador from Vienna, and all because Mr Haider has made a few throwaway remarks during his career about the “orderly employment policies” of the Nazis, and ran his last election campaign on a blatantly anti-foreigner ticket.
All taken out of context, they will have you believe. Jörg Haider’s Freedom Party feels deeply misunderstood. European leaders are threatening to throw a cordon sanitaire around Austria, while Israel is considering withdrawal of its ambassador from Vienna, and all because Mr Haider has made a few throwaway remarks during his career about the “orderly employment policies” of the Nazis, and ran his last election campaign on a blatantly anti-foreigner ticket
Jörg Haider’s Freedom Party feels deeply misunderstood. At least one person was killed and a dozen others injured, officials said. A bus filled with Dutch tourists fell 30 meters (yards) into a ravine Saturday night while negotiating a tight turn near the Alpine ski stations of Menuires and Val-Thorens. At least one person was killed and a dozen others injured, officials said.
Ten people were hospitalized in the town of Moutiers, 25 kilometers from the accident site.Identities of the victims were not immediately available.The bus, which was to travel overnight to Utrecht, was headed toward Moutiers when the accident occurred on a winding road leading from the ski stations.The bus was carrying 48 tourists and six guides, local officals said.It went off the road coming out of a tight turn, then rolled over into the ravine, falling some 30 meters, according to reports from the scene.More than 90 firefighters and rescue workers raced to the scene of the accident, working to free passengers from the wreckage..
A bus filled with Dutch tourists fell 30 meters (yards) into a ravine Saturday night while negotiating a tight turn near the Alpine ski stations of Menuires and Val-Thorens. Fire officers fighting against time to rescue a man trapped under the rubble of a building, have discovered a body. Fire officers fighting against time to rescue a man trapped under the rubble of a building, have discovered a body.
The family of the man, who had watched in anguish as the firemen conducted a painstaking search of the building in Bootle, Merseyside, were led away in tears by police officers.A total of 40 firefighters had searched since 10am for the man, a contractor who had been working on the two three-storey buildings when they collapsed.Three other contractors were rescued earlier today.Tonight, fire and police officers who had never given up hope of finding the fourth man alive began the disheartening task of removing his body.Mike Harris, of Merseyside fire brigade, said: “Obviously until that moment we were searching for someone we hoped was alive but unfortunately we found a body.”. Bed slats and every other piece of wood which the PoWs could obtain were used to build the flying machine.Wing spars were constructed from floorboards and control wires fabricated from electrical wire stolen from unused portions of the castle.Cotton prison sleeping bags were used for the skin of the glider, while tools were fashioned from the handles of beech bed-board, the frames of iron window bars and blades from gramophone spring.A concrete-filled bathtub plunging five storeys before crashing into the floor was to have provided a catapult launch for the hybrid plane, until the British escape officer decided lift-off should be delayed in case the SS ordered the massacre of the prisoners.After the Allies’ victory in 1945 the camp was peacefully turned over by its Kommandant to the Senior British Officer and the glider’s existence was revealed.. If successful, the scheme will be expanded to cover other countries.The Home Office is reported to be determined to be seen taking action against illegal immigrants, especially after latest figures showed a record number of new asylum seekers.. An extraordinary plan by British prisoners of war to escape from Colditz Castle in a glider built from floorboards and prison sleeping bags was being recreated at an RAF airbase today. An extraordinary plan by British prisoners of war to escape from Colditz Castle in a glider built from floorboards and prison sleeping bags was being recreated at an RAF airbase today.
The legendary story of the Colditz Cock has been brought to life as part of a Channel Four documentary about escape attempts from the German castle.Today, some of the men who came up with the unbelievable plan to fly to freedom in the glider, built in a secret makeshift workshop, were hoping to see the first flight of their amazing brainchild.Glider pilot John Lee will attempt to fly the two-man wooden aircraft at RAF Odiham, while survivors of the original quartet who conceived it look on.Flight Lieutenant Jack Best, who helped build the glider, and Bill Goldfinch, who drafted the plans, were both due to attend the flight as part of the Escape from Colditz TV series, which begins on Monday.Flt Lt Best, now 87 and living in Herefordshire, said: “To see it being constructed was absolutely fascinating, but to see it actually fly will be unbelievable.”I was perfectly certain that it would fly, and the meticulous job they have done in reconstructing it from the original plans is very impressive.”Obviously they had tools that we could only dream about at the time, and the standard of materials are far higher because we had to use what was available.”Neil Fripp, of Southdown Aero Services, who rebuilt the glider using original 1945 plans, said the project had been a wonderful experience.”It has been a fantastic project to work on, and we can now say that the only people to have built this glider are us and the men that designed it 50 years ago.”To see the expression on those men’s faces will be a huge buzz to us.”Working from just one A4 drawing the glider company has re-created the 32ft wingspan aircraft after being given just six weeks to do the job.But this was luxury compared with the conditions endured by Colditz prisoners as they secretly laboured on the original in the last days of the war.They built a false wall in the attic of one of the castle buildings behind which a workshop was constructed.
Visitors to Britain from the Indian sub-continent will be asked for a £10,000 bond if immigration officials suspect they intend to settle illegally, it emerged today.
The bond, which may be paid by relatives, will not be returned by the Home Office unless the visitor leaves on or before their due departure date. If the visitor fails to leave, the money will be forfeited.Ministers believe the pilot scheme is vital to curb the record numbers of bogus visitors coming to Britain with the intention of not returning home, reports The Sunday Telegraph.Campaigners for ethnic minorities described the scheme as discriminatory, saying it targeted poor people who would not be able to find the money to put up the bond.Officials are to locate the project initially at two visa issuing posts in either India, Pakistan or Bangladesh. Where someone is prosecuted for mistreating animals, they will pass information to police and social services. Mr Wolinski also wants Britain to consider following the American practice of running anger management courses for people convicted of crimes against animals.Psychiatrists already acknowledge a link between violence to animals and to children, citing a genetic trait, characterised by a lack of empathy and anti-social behaviour.The League Against Cruel Sports believes the link may even extend to paedophiles. “Videos of animal cruelty are like hard core porn videos or child porn,” said Steve Rackett, a spokesman.
