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Herbert F. (84) has been in a Taliban dungeon in Kabul for six months: the right-wing extremist blogger from Vienna had traveled to the Islamist country in the Hindu Kush despite warnings. He had wanted to show that, contrary to the opinion of experts, Afghanistan was a safe country of origin and that refugees could be deported there without hesitation - and proved the exact opposite.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

In case you're not joking: It's very common in Europe to abbreviate the last name of non-public figures when reporting on them. So it's a kind of anonymization.

On the other hand: that guy was the founding member of a party, so could be argued to be a (minor) public figure. But I guess this specific report is not directly tied to that "work" of his, so it could be considered in the private sphere.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah this.

If anyone wants to know his full name (for whatever reason), you can find it on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Democratic_Party_(Austria)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Herbert Fritz

Can I ask why the hunt? Like why not just do what I did here?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

also Austria probably has thousands of Herbert Fritzes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Right? 84 years ago you couldn't toss a newspaper without hitting a Herbert Fritz