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The Muslim terrorist was sentenced to 22 months in prison in April 2019 because he tried to join the Islamic State. He was granted early release in December under juvenile law.
They let him go. Just like the Manchester bomber came to security service’s attention 18 times – and still he went on to kill twenty-three people and more than 800 were wounded, many of them children.
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Attack in Vienna targeted nightlife; suspect had IS ties
By Philipp Jenne and Frank Jordan, AP November 3, 2020:
VIENNA (AP) — At least one Islamic extremist — a 20-year-old armed with an automatic rifle and a fake explosive vest — rampaged through a crowded Vienna nightlife district hours ahead of a coronavirus lockdown, leaving four people dead before being killed by police, Austrian authorities said Tuesday.
The suspect in Monday night’s attack was identified as a young Austrian-North Macedonian dual citizen with a previous terror conviction for attempting to join the Islamic State extremist group in Syria.
Unverified video showed the suspect, dressed in white coveralls, firing off bursts apparently at random as he ran down the Austrian capital’s cobblestone streets.
Police have arrested several other people and searched 15 houses and apartments, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer told the Austrian news agency APA.
Two men and two women died from their injuries in the attack, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said. He said a police officer who tried to get in the way of the attacker was shot and wounded, and another 14 people were hurt.
Vienna’s hospital service said seven people were in life-threatening condition Tuesday after the attack, APA reported.
“Yesterday’s attack was clearly an Islamist terror attack,” Kurz said. “It was an attack out of hatred — hatred for our fundamental values, hatred for our way of life, hatred for our democracy in which all people have equal rights and dignity.”
The attacker, identified as Kujtim Fejzulai, was sentenced to 22 months in prison in April 2019 because he had tried to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group. He was granted early release in December under juvenile law.
Nehammer told APA that Fejzulai had posted a photo on his Instagram account before the attack that showed him with two of the weapons he apparently used.
″(The suspect) was equipped with a fake explosive vest and and an automatic rifle, a handgun and a machete to carry out this repugnant attack on innocent citizens,” Nehammer said.
Authorities were still trying to determine whether further attackers may be on the run. People in Vienna were urged to stay at home if possible on Tuesday and children did not have to go to school. Some 1,000 police officers were on duty in the city on Tuesday morning.
The shooting began shortly after 8 p.m. (1900 GMT) Monday near Vienna’s main synagogue as many people were enjoying a last night of open restaurants and bars before a month-long coronavirus lockdown, which started at midnight.
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8 Comments
3 years ago
3 years ago
Impossible.
It’s illegal to own a Kalashnikov in Austria. Gun Control Works.
Therefore, this never happened.
3 years ago
Note:
no “mental illness”,
no “looking for a motive”,
no “poverty, alienation, marginalisation, oppression” excuses.
A change has come to the authorities. They are announcing straight away “Islamist terror attack”. This is a great step forward. Next they need to learn that there is no “Islamist” – a decoy term invented to deflect attention away from Islam.
3 years ago
Again, so much for gun control!
3 years ago
Reply to
Alfred Kneer
UPDATE:
One of the gunmen, shot dead by police, has been identified as 20-year-old Kujtim Fejzulai, an Islamic State sympathizer. The terrorist was wearing a fake explosive belt at the time of the attack. Police and SWAT teams used explosives to enter Fejzulai’s home and carry out a search.
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said the shooting was “definitely a terror attack” and added that “an anti-Semitic motive cannot be excluded” due to proximity of the attack to the synagogue.
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/global/europe/dead-terrorist-identified-in-vienna-european-jews-shocked-appalled-by-attack/2020/11/03/
Several “heavily armed perpetrators” are still at large, according to Austria’s Interior Minister Karl Nehammer, who told public broadcaster ORF on Tuesday, “We are still in battle against the would-be terrorists.” The public has been asked to remain at home or in a safe place, and to follow the news in the media.
3 years ago
Expect more.
3 years ago
“Islamist terror attack” yeah, right. I’m sure that’s exactly how the muslum terrorist describes himself (i.e. as an “islamist”).
3 years ago
More Muzzie Stank !!
