2024-01-15 11:50:03
It was the laughter of Hamza, which Gundula fell in love with 1.5 ago. “When I was with him, I always felt good,” says Gundula. The couple, who live in Vienna, decided to get married in the summer. On Saturday it was in Bad Vöslau so far. But it wasn’t the best day in the couple’s life. It became the worst.
Relatives and friends came to celebrate the day. But during the wedding, the registrar suddenly left the room. “She said she had to get something. She came back with ten or 12 men,” says Gundula.
They were officials from the Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum. They arrested Hamza and put him in detention pending deportation.
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The bride suffered a shock and had to go to the hospital. “Why didn’t they come before? They knew where we lived,” she says. “That’s just sadistic.”
The 25-year-old Kurd came to Austria in March 2022 – he was supposed to be drafted into military service in Turkey. He applied for asylum in Austria. But the rejection came just ten days before the wedding.
“From the moment of the marriage, Hamza’s stay in Austria would have been legal,” says Sein Attorney Gregor Bracket. But the officials prevented this marriage at the last moment. “Barbaric,” bracket calls it. And: “Illegal”. “Such an approach used to be common. But then it was banned.”
He immediately filed a complaint with the Federal Administrative Court; the hearing must take place within seven days. But Hamza might already be deported during this time. “Then he will probably be drafted into military service straight from the airport,” fears the lawyer.
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