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The murdered Vienna assassin was twenty Years alt, Dual national with roots in North Macedonia and released ahead of prison time after being convicted of terrorist organization in December. Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) announced this at a press conference on Tuesday.
The perpetrator was undoubtedly a supporter of the radical Islamist terrorist militia “Islamic State”. Kujtim F. was sentenced to 22 months in prison on April 25, 2019 for attempting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State. On December 5, 2019, he was conditionally released early – he was considered a young adult and was therefore under the privileges of the Juvenile Court Act (JGG). He was shot and killed by the police twenty-Year-old on Monday evening near the Ruprechtskirche, announced the interior minister.
Mother reported the disappearance of her son
“He came from a perfectly normal family. For me he was a young man who had the misfortune to make the wrong friends. If he had not gone to a mosque but to boxing, he would have become a boxer” – with these words he characterized the Viennese defense lawyer Nikolaus Rast Kujtim F., who shot at least four people on Monday night in Vienna.
Rast had represented the boy in a hearing at the Vienna Regional Court, where he was sentenced to 22 months in prison in April 2019 as an ISIS sympathizer because he wanted to travel to Syria to join the radical Islamist terrorist militia “Islamic State”. “to connect. In Turkey, however, the authorities detained him, prevented him from crossing the Syrian border, detained him and sent him back to Austria.
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Fight against Terrorism (BVT) originally learned of the Austrian-born child because his mother had reported him missing. In the course of the investigation into his whereabouts, it turned out that nothing had happened to him. Rather, he was on his way to Syria.
Nehammer criticizes the judiciary
Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) clearly criticized Tuesday afternoon the fact that the murderer shot by the police had been released on probation from a 22-month prison sentence. The 20-year-old managed to “fool the de-radicalization program of the judiciary,” Nehammer said. Therefore, it requires a “system evaluation and optimization”.
Kujtim F. was convicted of terrorist organization (Section 278 b of the Penal Code) in Vienna in April 2019 after it was withdrawn from circulation while trying to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State. Already in early December he was released under certain conditions and assigned a probation and support officer from the Derad association, which specializes in the de-radicalization of radical Islamist criminals. It is likely that he cleverly pretended that they both moved away from the ideology of IS. Nehammer stated that he had made “special efforts” with the probation officer. During the appointments with Derad, he tried to correspond externally to the image of a young man integrated into society. In reality, the 20-year-old wanted to “deliberately destroy the system,” Nehammer said.
The 20-year-old is reportedly said to have completed a date with Derad a few days ago, in late October. It was said that he explicitly condemned the recent terrorist attacks in France. In truth, however, there is “abundant evidence of its radicalization,” emphasized the director general of Public Security, Franz Ruf, at the press conference at the Interior Ministry.
Video: Tuesday morning review: the day after the terrorist attack in Vienna
Parents of the perpetrator from North Macedonia
According to North Macedonian media reports, the parents of the 20-year-old killer from Vienna come from the town of Celopek (Albanian: Cellopeku), about ten kilometers southeast of the North Macedonian city of Tetovo . The boarding portal “A1on” reported this on Tuesday, citing unofficial information from the North Macedonia police.
Initially, there was no further information about the killer’s family in the North Macedonian media on Tuesday. In their reporting, the country’s media relied mainly on Austrian media reports.
