Austrian Swimming Pool puts up Signs to Stop Migrant Assaults

The signs were posted in a swimming pool in Perchtoldsdorf, a market town in Lower Austria, a short distance from the capital of Vienna.

In a bid to prevent sexual assaults by migrants from happening in the summer season, the pool's management decided to place the bizarre signs.

One sign shows a man entering the women's dressing room with the word "Stop!" and "entry is forbidden in non-designated areas" written next to it.

Another sign sees a picture of a young teen in a bikini with three hands seemingly wanting to grope her.

It reads "No!", with a text explaining that "physical contact with other guests is forbidden."

And while the signs featured English, French and Arab language, a text in German was lacking, with the sign clearly being meant for migrants and not for local visitors.

Local citizens and politicians have reacted to the apparent necessity of such signs.

MP Christian Hoebart of the Freedom Party of Austria, which is opposed to immigration, argued that the signs should not be needed in a civilised society.

He wrote: "Or is it once again a submission (by our society) for the mass immigration of completely uneducated and culturally alien people?"

Local citizens wrote to the MP that the swimming pool in Perchtoldsdorf was not the only one with such signs, with one saying he has also seen them in the mountain town of Gloggnitz.

It is not the first unusual measure to stop sex attacks in swimming pool.

Last year, teenage girls at German swimming pools were being given anti-sex attack press-on tattoos with the word "No" as a warning for would-be-attackers not to harass them.