Loud anti-Semitic remarks were heard today in Vienna University hall during a lecture by Israeli Professor A. Flusser about Essenes and Christians in the light of recent Israeli research.
After the lecture, which was attended by a large audience of students and faculty members, a poster was found on the university hall with the inscription: “Pig Jews; Out of Austria!” Police began an investigation.
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