Ferdinand Bevc lives proper subsequent to the street resulting in the Perschmannhof. He says as of late that he’s going to by no means overlook the sight he noticed upstairs on July 27 this yr: “Crying, harmless, intelligent young people.” Bevc was once one of the most first at the scene that day to get the speculation of a police motion in opposition to the anti-fascist instructional camp, which nonetheless has an have an effect on as of late.
Bevc is aware of the area like nobody else; till 2020 he was once head of the Dangerous Eisenkappel/Iron Chapel marketplace, the place Leppen-Graben is situated – and in addition Perschmannhof. Right here, of all puts, at this central Nazi memorial of the Carinthian Slovenes, the police performed a significant operation in the summertime to look the memorial and determine the camp contributors – with state safety, immigration police, canines and a helicopter. When two days later, on a sunny summer time day, the helicopter once more rotated over Lepen, the citizens ran to their properties in alarm. “The fear is back,” says Bevts, “because there is still so much trauma.”
