Victims of false hopes

A Kosovan family is facing deportation from Austria after its application for asylum was rejected. "Arigona Zogaj, her mother and her siblings are all victims," writes Michael Fleischhacker in the daily Die Presse: "First of all they are victims of the false hopes people gave them and they gave themselves. Then they are victims of a man who showed little consideration for his family. They are victims of the policies that, for lack of clear concepts, have given the authorities more leeway than they can deal with. And finally the Zogajs are victims of the media, which have ruthlessly exploited them to satisfy the supposed political reflexes of their consumers. If I were Minister of the Interior I would grant this family the right to residence denied to them two years ago in recognition of their victim status."  

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