Video (excerpt): “I don’t want to blackmail the authorities or the police, but I was serious about suicide. If I have to return (to Kosovo, sic) then I rather take my life, because there I have no future”, said 15-year-old Arigona Zogaj in a hugely emotional estate.
The video, which was received by the ORF in early October 2007, put Austria’s xenophobic Asylum Policies under the aegis of Interior Minister Günther Platter of the FPÖ – I am sorry, ÖVP, an unintentional slip-of-the-tongue – international spotlight. A family that came to Austria in 2001 from Kosovo, who was considered as fully integrated into the community of Frankenburg, near Vöcklamarkt in Oberösterreich, was ripped apart in front of the amazed Austrian public.
