Swimming Pool in Austria Bans All Refugees After 13-Year-Old Girl is Sexually Assaulted

AN OUTDOOR swimming pool in Austria has banned refugees after a 13-year-old girl told police that a man followed her into the women’s dressing room and sexually molested her.

Operators of the pool in the town of Mistelbach, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) northwest of Vienna, have erected signs saying ‘today no entry for refugees’.

The daily Kronen Zeitung said that police are investigating Wednesday’s reported attack at the pool.

It cited the girl as saying the man had a dark complexion and fled after she screamed but gave no other details.

The newspaper carried a photo of the sign and said it was put up at the entrance of the pool on Thursday.

Local mayor Alfred Pohl told The Local: ‘This decision was not taken lightly, but I take responsibility.’

Two security guards are being hired to patrol the swimming pool and the ban on refugees will stay until ‘the security is in place’, Pohl said.

The latest alleged incident comes after a 10-year-old boy was raped at an Austrian swimming pool by an Iraqi who said it was ‘a sexual emergency’.

The boy was raped in a cubicle of the Theresienbad pool on December 2, 2015.

The child had to be hospitalised with serious injuries and his mother said her son has been crying himself to sleep every night since the attack.

Speaking to local media, his mother Dunja revealed how she was a single mother, who had struggled with little money but had always encouraged her five children not to judge other people.