Instead of announcing the next interregional train stop in Austria, the loudspeakers of the railway system broadcast Nazi salutes such as "Sieg Heil" or "Heil Hitler" for several minutes on Sunday, the Austrian press reported on Monday.
A passenger who traveled on the train that linked the city of Innsbruck with Vienna, told EFE that half an hour before arriving in the Austrian capital the announcement system began to broadcast —for about 20 minutes— fragments of a speech by the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and other meaningless recordings.
"Some passengers panicked, others were outraged and others just laughed," explained the witness, who criticized the fact that no train employee appeared to calm down the passengers.
According to the Der Standard newspaper, in the last two weeks there have been two other similar incidents on the same train line, always between the town of Sankt Pölten and Vienna.
A spokesman for the public railway company ÖBB spoke on Monday in statements to the Austrian press of "technical failures".
Everything indicates that the two suspects - who have been denounced, but not arrested - had access to the public address system in the carriages to transmit Nazi greetings, the spokesman added.
According to ÖBB, it is not a case of computer or cyber hacking of the operating systems of the trains.
Broadcasting National Socialist content in public is a crime, according to the Austrian criminal code, so this incident will be investigated by the Austrian intelligence services, says Der Standard in its online edition today.
