Number of Deportations Significantly Increased
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Parents bring their children to their homes under pretext: numbers are rising rapidly. Women are also left behind by husbands.
In 2026 alone, 92 abductions were reported in Austria. This is significantly more than in the previous years: just a few weeks ago, reports of "five cases in four minutes" were received. Children in particular are affected, which are then to be married in their home countries.
Children - boys and girls - who are brought by their parents as a "discipline measure" to their home countries are affected, often on the pretext of a holiday.
24 recuperations have already been carried out this year
The number of deportations from Austria has recently increased significantly. In the two years 2024 and 2025, if there were a total of 160 reports of abducted persons, the figure in the first half of 2026 is already 92, as an APA request to the National Competence Centre against abduction and family violence, which is located at the PeriFeri Association, shows. Head Meltem Weiland strikes an alarm against the APA and speaks of a "difficult incre…
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