Gloria.TV Journalists Attacked by Pro Death Demonstrators in front of HLI Austria office

 HLI wishes to thank our courageous friends at Gloria TV for defying the violent protesters in order to document their hatred for all things Christian and the utter uselessness of the police who acted as if they were there to protect the perpetrators of the violence, but not the victims.

12/4/09 - Last Friday night, journalists of Gloria-TV were violently attacked in the centre of Vienna while filming a public rally that was taking place in support of abortion.

About 100 pro-death-demonstrators gathered in front of a building housing offices of the Pro-Life organization ‘Human Life International'. 20 to 30 police officers accompanied them.

The participants yelled out notorious hate-slogans against Christians like: "If Mary had had an abortion, we would have been spared from Christians."

Ironically, the violent demonstrators were demonstrating in recognition of the "International Day of Violence Against Women".

Two Gloria-TV journalists wanted to film the event. For safety reasons, they kept themselves at a distance of several meters from the pro-death demonstrators.

But within seconds, masked figures rushed toward them and tried to prevent the filming. As the pictures show, the journalists had to protect themselves.

"Go away!, Go away!, Go away!"
"Stop filming! Stop filming!"

The police forces in charge of the situation intervened and offered backup assistance given the dangerous situation the two journalists found themselves in.

Eventually they requested that the team leave the area, even though they had behaved lawfully.

Policemen admitted to Gloria.TV that the violence had erupted solely from the abortion protesters.

One officer commented: "I cannot let you film here, we fear that you could be attacked again."

"They will attack you, if you continue filming, therefore I must prevent you (from filming)."

The two journalists, however, continued filming as other camera teams were doing the same.

But suddenly an aggressive female Pro-death demonstrator attacked the camera woman of Gloria.TV from behind.

The demonstrator ripped the camera out of the journalist's hands, broke off the screen and destroyed the recording device, rendering it unusable.

At least five police officers witnessed the violence. The injured journalist asked them to take down the identity of the perpetrator, but the policemen did nothing.

At the insistence of the victim, a police woman finally politely asked the perpetrator for her identity card.

The assailant refused to hand it out and the police woman did not insist. Despite repeated urgings by the victim, the identity of the perpetrator remained unknown.

The assailant stood for several minutes with her bicycle near the victim and the police, and eventually left under the eyes of the officers.

The assaulted Gloria.TV journalist suffered a slight shock. She went to the nearest police station to file a report "against unknown persons".

The officials confirmed that the police officers present at the demonstration would have had the duty to take down the identity of the perpetrator.

The damages of the attack against Gloria.TV amounted to a loss of more than 1000 Euros.