A Black woman assaulted a young Austrian woman on Vienna’s subway system on the U6 line in Meidling. The suspect also screamed xenophobic insults.
The 25-year-old victim said she was randomly attacked by the woman, who was wearing a pink dress in the video.
“Something like this has never happened to me in my life,” the victim told the Heute outlet, while also stating that she has been traumatized by the incident and has called in sick to her workplace.
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A Black woman assaulted a young Austrian woman on Vienna's subway system on the U6 line in Meidling. The suspect also screamed xenophobic insults.
The 25-year-old victim said she was randomly attacked by the woman.
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— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) June 1, 2026According to the victim, she said the incident began on the subway. While speaking to her boyfriend, she was suddenly tapped on the shoulder by an unknown person as she got out of the train.
“I have never seen the person before in my life,” she said. However, the stranger claimed to have been laughed at by the 25-year-old. The Austrian woman denied it and simply went up the escalators.
That’s when the video begins, which showed the victim begin harassed and beaten on top of the escalator.
The aggressive Black woman pulled her hair and called her a “shitty Austrian” and a “bitch.”
Despite up to 40 witnesses, nobody did anything except for one man, according to the victim. That man had a skateboard and threatened the Black woman to back away.
“A whopping 40 people noticed this,” said the Viennese woman. However, she is grateful the one man helped her before the situation could escalate.
Police have opened an investigation, but so far there is no indication about who the perpetrator could be.
