Muslim Austrian academic shares tale of gunpoint raid
Al Jazeera
Months after officers barged into the home of Farid Hafez, who has still not been charged, he and his children are being treated for PTSD.
On November 9 last year, at 5am, police in Vienna rammed into Farid Hafez’s two-storey apartment and pointed their guns at the political scientist and his family. After monitoring him for more than 20,000 hours, he was suspected of supporting “terrorism”, a charge he strongly denies. “It was just unthinkable. I could never have conceived of anything like that happening to me here,” Hafez, who works at the University of Salzburg, told Al Jazeera via Zoom. “I felt like this was a Hollywood movie with GIs surrounding me.”More Related News