A politician published a poem where he compared immigrants to rats and was denied

April 23, 2019

The text was published under the title "The Rat of the City" and was published in an Austrian newspaper. Before widespread repudiation, the politician apologized.

Austria is shocked by this poem published by Christian Schilcher, member of the far right bloc Freedom Party (FPÖ), which is part of the coalition that governs L & # 39; Austria currently. In this text, the official says that migrants contribute to the "mixture of cultures" and that this leads to the "destruction" of their identity.

The controversial poem was distributed in the newspaper of the Freedom Party. "In the same way that we live here, the same is true of rats who, as guests or migrants, must integrate into the lifestyle or leave quickly", says a fragment of this text by reproducing the news agency AFP.

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In turn, Schilcher he is also deputy mayor of the Austrian city Braunau am Inn, famous all over the world for being the birthplace of Adolf Hitler

One of the main detractors of this text was the Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, who rejected these lines emphatically and described them as "abominable". "The poem is disgusting, inhuman and deeply racist", he added. Even political leaders have compared this publication with the propaganda used by the Nazi government in Germany against the Jews.

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After criticizing the controversial poem, Christian Schilcher he apologized and He said that with her, he did not intend to insult or hurt anyone.. Similarly, the politician badured that his intention was to "point out specific problems that I and others rightly criticize", thus demonstrating his "anti-immigrant" stance and that of his party.

The Freedom Party is one of the few far-right parties to take power in all areas. European Union.