Qatari mediation: 84-year-old right-wing extremist launched from Taliban custody | EUROtoday
NAfter 9 months in jail with the Taliban in Afghanistan, an Austrian right-wing extremist has been launched. As the Federal Chancellery and the Foreign Ministry introduced on Sunday in Vienna, 84-year-old Herbert Fritz landed within the Qatari capital Doha. He had been underneath the management of the Islamist Taliban since May 2023.
Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) thanked the Qatari authorities on Platform X for its mediation within the matter.
The Foreign Ministry emphasised that the 84-year-old had obtained “as best as possible consular support” in current months by way of the Foreign Office, the related embassy in Pakistan and the EU illustration in Kabul. This meant that urgently wanted remedy and a listening to assist got to him.
The man is taken into account a well known determine within the right-wing extremist scene in Austria. In 1967 he was a founding member of the National Democratic Party (NDP), which was banned in 1988. He traveled to Afghanistan regardless of a journey warning that had been in place for many years, the place he was accused of espionage. According to an Austrian media report, Fritz needed to make use of his journey to indicate that Afghanistan was protected once more. Shortly earlier than his abduction, he had revealed an article entitled “Holiday with the Taliban” in a right-wing extremist journal.
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