(Local) After 129 interrogations, police in Austria identified three “leaders” responsible for the protests and violence in the city of Linz over Halloween — there were threats of further riots on New Year’s Eve.
On Tuesday morning, the Upper Austrian police and the Linz public prosecutor’s office presented further details about the Halloween riots in downtown Linz.
According to regional police director Andreas Pilsl, after 129 interrogations, “a core of 20 people could be filtered out.” Among them were three “ringleaders”: “a 21-year-old Syrian with asylum status, a 17-year-old North Macedonian and a 19-year-old Spaniard.”
