Austria -- Four Vienna police officers have been suspended from duty after they allegedly made crude and racist remarks to a two-time Austrian Olympic athlete.
The four were relieved of duty Thursday pending an investigation into the incident, which officials said happened on Sunday — the latest in a string of scandals implicating police in the Austrian capital.
Tuncay Caliskan, a taekwondo specialist of Turkish extraction who competed for Austria in the 2000 Sydney Olympics and 2004 Athens Olympics and hopes to make the team for the 2008 Games in Beijing, said the four used extremely foul and abusive language and repeated racist slurs.
Caliskan, 29, said the officers ridiculed him when he went to a police station for help after an unknown assailant threatened him with a baseball bat, and that the situation rapidly escalated at the station.
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