THOUSANDS of people protested in Vienna yesterday against the swearing-in of the new government, targeting their anger against the Islamophobic Freedom Party of Austria.

Members of anti-fascist, feminist and left-wing student groups were among the demonstrators gathered in the Heldenplatz area, near the official residences of the president and chancellor.

They held banners reading: “Nazis out,” “We don't want any nazi pigs” and “Don't let nazis govern.”