Asylum center attack the latest in a series in Austria

• Unidentified assailants threw a molotov cocktail at the center near Vienna, damaging a wall but leaving occupants uninjured.
• Police are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime, with anti-immigrant sentiments having ratcheted up ahead of the upcoming presidential election pitting the independent incumbent against a far-right nationalist candidate.
• The attack follows the arson of a newly built but unoccupied refugee center in Altenfelden earlier in the year.

Read more:
“Austrian asylum center hit by Molotov cocktail” (Reuters)
“Haunted by asylum center fire, divided Austrian town prepares to vote” (Reuters)
“Austria sees 13 attacks on refugee centres in 3 months” (The Local Austria, June 2016)