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In 1981, a terrorist squad attacked the synagogue at Seitenstettengasse. An excerpt from the previous attacks in Vienna.
The attack in central Vienna is one of the worst terrorist attacks in recent Austrian history. And it is the second attack that occurred in Seitenstettengasse: in 1981, a Palestinian terrorist squad attacked the synagogue and killed two people.
Terrorist acts with fatalities are quite rare in Austria. The attacks with the most serious consequences so far have been the far-right pipe bomb attack in Oberwart, in which four gypsies were killed in 1995, and the series of letter bombs also carried out by neo-Nazi Franz Fuchs, as well like the Abu Nidal group’s attack on Vienna airport in 1985, which left four dead and 38 wounded.
There is no official list of terrorist attacks in Austria by the Ministry of the Interior. An excerpt from the University of Maryland Global Terrorism Database.
March 12, 2018: A 26-year-old man attacks an armed forces guard at the Iranian embassy in Vienna with a knife and is shot. According to the police, the perpetrator, who had completed his military service in the armed forces, was sympathetic to political Islam.
June 30, 2017: A native of Tunisia murdered an elderly couple in Linz. Then-Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka (ÖVP) reported shortly after an alleged connection between the perpetrator and the “Islamic State” (IS). However, the man is cleared of being a member of a terrorist organization and sent to an institution for mentally abnormal lawbreakers. He himself gives the reason that he wanted to set an example in society and in the FPÖ, which is why he felt discriminated against as a foreigner and Muslim.
May 24, 2009: In an attack by Sikh fundamentalists on a temple in Vienna-Rudolfsheim, a guru who had traveled from India is killed and nine other people are injured, some seriously. In 2010, the main offender was for life, four accomplices for 17 and 18 years respectively.
January 13, 2009: Umar Israilow, a bodyguard of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov who fled to Austria, is shot dead on the street in Vienna-Floridsdorf. The alleged gunman was able to flee to Russia, and three accomplices received lengthy prison terms in 2012.
11. April 1995: Two suspected left-wing extremists Gregor Thaler and Peter Konicek are killed in a failed attack on a power tower in Ebergassing, near Vienna.
February 4, 1995: A tube bomb planted by right-wing radical Franz Fuchs kills four Roma in Oberwart. Josef Simon, Peter Sarközi, Karl Horvath and Erwin Horvath are the victims of the most serious internal politically motivated attack in Austria to date. Fuchs, the author of the most pipe bombs and letters with numerous seriously injured people, was captured in 1997 and committed suicide in custody in 2000.
July 13, 1989: Iranian agents shoot three high-ranking Kurdish politicians, including Austrian citizen Fadel Rasoul, in a private apartment in Vienna. The perpetrators can hide in the Iranian embassy and are allowed to leave Tehran undisturbed after the interventions, one is even taken to Schwechat airport under police protection.
December 27, 1985: In an attack by the Palestinian group Abu Nidal on the counter of the Israeli airline El Al at Vienna airport, three passengers and an attacker were killed and 38 people were injured. A simultaneous attack in Rome left 16 dead.
19. November 1984: Turkish diplomat Enver Ergun is shot dead in his car on the Schottenring in Vienna. The aggressor can flee. Armenian extremists are committed to the attack. Another Turkish diplomat was the victim of an attack on June 20.
August 29, 1981: A Palestinian terrorist squad assaults the Seitenstettengasse synagogue in Vienna. Retiree Nathan Fried and Ulrike Kohut, 25, are killed and numerous people are injured. The police and the bodyguard of the industrialist Leopold Böhm who was present prevent a worse bloodbath. The perpetrators, also responsible for the Nittel murder (see below), are arrested.
May 1, 1981: The Palestinian group Abu Nidal assassinates the Vienna councilor and president of the Austrian-Israeli Society, Heinz Nittel (SPÖ).
December 21, 1975: A commando under the notorious terrorist “Carlos” attacks OPEC headquarters in Vienna. The result: three dead and numerous wounded. The terrorists receive safe conduct and are allowed to flee to Algiers with several hostages. Interior Minister Otto Rösch (SPÖ) says goodbye to “Carlos” with a handshake. The terrorist was captured in 1994 and imprisoned in France.
October 22, 1975: Terrorists shoot Turkish Ambassador Danis Tunaligil in Vienna. Armenian extremists are responsible for the attack.
