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According to a witness, the attackers attacked people in front of the bars.
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In the attack in Vienna on Monday night, the perpetrators apparently targeted local guests in bars and pub gardens in the Bermuda Triangle. When the first shots rang out, panic broke out, according to eyewitnesses and earshots.
Community Rabbi Schlomo Hofmeister witnessed people being shot at in the Bermuda Triangle. “At least one attacker, it is very difficult to say how many there were, shot people who were sitting in front of the bars and pubs of the Bermuda Triangle,” Hofmeister told “Presse” and “ZiB”.
Community rabbi cannot confirm attack on synagogue
People ran to the bars in panic, and the attackers followed. According to Hofmeister, there were still shots in the bars. He called the police who “never came”, but then with special units. “Suddenly special units were placed everywhere at the entrances of the houses. The police called for any wounded and I heard shouts from the bars: ‘Yes, there are two injured here! And here is one too.’
“From my point of view, I cannot confirm that it was an attack on the synagogue,” he says in the “press.” “Let’s wait and see what the investigation reveals, but what I saw, the attackers attacked people in front of the bars and then also at the bars. The Bermuda Triangle is the nightlife district around here. Night, many will have passed things the last night before closing. “
Panic in the Schanigarten: “Suddenly the tables have flown”
A little further up in Bognergasse, the pub garden in front of the Schwarzer Kameel is packed. “It was the last night everyone wanted to have a nice evening before they stopped seeing each other,” says boss Peter Friese. “The weather was good, everyone was out.”
He learned early that something was wrong, he reported to the “press” on the phone. An employee has contacts with the police. I was just thinking about how to inform the guests and bring them to the house, I wanted to call the city governor, “but I did not achieve that, panic broke out. Suddenly the tables flew, everyone left. to the basement.
By the time the “press” caught up with him, he had already distributed the guests throughout the house, some of them on the first floor, in the office, in his private apartment. His cell phone rings somewhere in the house, an English-speaking guest added. “We have occupied the whole house,” he says, still with shaking hands and a hot face, “we try to feed the people, but they don’t want to drink anything, they watch television, everyone has their cell phone in hand.”
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