Und immer wieder „Fritzl-Case“
Der österreichische Autor Thomas Glavinic im Guardian„:
The countryside hates everything that is at a distance: the government, the EU, the Americans, the Jews. There are old-boy networks and there is peer pressure. Those who don’t work for their local voluntary fire brigade or at least donate money to their village fete are branded oddballs or outsiders. The rest, on the other hand, could beat up their wives and kids in their spare time. We wouldn’t care. „It’s just none of our business.“
Josef Haslinger in der „Sunday Times„:
“There is this pretty, shiny surface that Austrians like to show, but it hides a monstrosity,†he said. “On the surface we have moral standards and enlightened policies, but in the background we have this perverse world that nobody wants to talk about. We are still not able to accept our mistakes. So forgetting has become part of the mentality. If you look too closely you might have to act. So nobody looks.â€
Die Österreicher sind ja noch schlimmer als die Deutschen mit ihrer Distanz zum eigenen Land. Da wird auch die EM nicht helfen.
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Und auch eine Woche danach noch Schaudern, wenn ich diese Zeilen lese:
At the age of only 42, her crudely cut hair is completely white, her lips are shrunken around toothless gums, her face is deeply lined, her body painfully thin, her skin almost transparent. According to a forensic psychiatrist, Dr Guntram Knecht, she has been ‚destroyed by all means‘. Of all those Fritzl damaged, she was the only one to know she was a victim. If she can live with her children again, ‚it will be because of her desire to be a mother,‘ he said.
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Und dann immer wieder der warnende Gusenbauer. Im Flugzeug las ich dann noch in der FAS „Was wird das Ausland dazu sagen?„. Vielleicht muss man die Frage, warum schon wieder Österreich doch mit einer viel größeren Penetranz diskutieren. Dieses Abwiegeln, dieses Kleinreden ist ja wirkt ja schon sehr nach bockigem Kleinkind.