Since then criticism of the Austrian government, consisting of the ASP and the conservative People's Party, the APP, has grown louder. ASP Chancellor Viktor Klima is openly supporting his interior minister. While the Bulgarian attorney-general found the three escorting officers fully responsible for Omafuma's death and ascertained grounds for murder, the accused were returned to Austria and not even suspended from duty. The fact is that about 17,000 people are deported annually from Austria, many through forceful measures. Last year 2,889 were deported by plane.
Death appears to be a calculated risk in enforcing the restriction of rights to asylum.
Sympathy, consideration or attention to human rights are not provided for by law. The fact that hardly any other airline outside of Balkan Air is prepared to undertake deportations gives an indication of the brutal measures used in effecting them. Human rights organisations argue that the measures used in Omafuma's case are in no way unusual. Some lawyers use all available legal means. Yet the brutal death of Markus Omafuma and the determined defence of the forcible deportation measures being used have a wider significance than the almost daily incitement of racism in the Alpine republic, directed especially against Africans.