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Heavily armed police officers spread throughout the city of Linz. Reinforced patrols in public places, officials who take a position to protect property in front of numerous houses and institutions. The terror that shook Vienna on Monday also cast its shadow over the state capital on Tuesday.
There are precautionary and investigative measures that take place shortly after 10 am in the south of the city: a special task force from Cobra and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution is located in front of a residential building on Gürtelstrasse. Moments later they are arrested: a young man is taken away, discreetly dressed in a blue T-shirt, black jeans and white sneakers. It does not resist.
Traces of Kujtim F., 20, the murderer murdered in Vienna, led to the street in the vicinity of Bulgariplatz. A few hours later, the state governor confirmed Thomas stelzer (VP) and Director of State Police Andreas Pilsl arrest by order of the Vienna Public Prosecutor’s Office. There was also a house search and the interrogations continue. At the time, Pilsl was unable and unwilling to explain the background that led to the man in Linz.
“Returnees from Jihad under control”
Along with the lieutenant governor Manfred haimbuchner (FP), Social Counselor Birgit Gerstorfer (SP) and Integration Council Stefan Kaineder (Greens) Pilsl and Stelzer were made public after the State Security Council meeting on Tuesday. As early as Monday evening, Pilsl said, a separate staff had provided counseling in Linz and search activities had begun in the country. Immediately after the attack, the police officers took up positions in front of the Linz synagogue and the Cobra command had supported the officers in Vienna. “Today we also equipped 80 men from the task force with long weapons and sent them to Vienna for support,” Pilsl said yesterday. In Upper Austria, returnees from jihad are “well under control” and networks can be discovered “relatively quickly”.
“Barbarian act of terror”
Governor Stelzer spoke of a “barbaric act of terrorism, an attack on democracy that left all of Austria in mourning.” The country’s armed forces and police will provide assistance in Vienna. You will not be intimidated and will respond using the rule of law. “We will not tolerate an attack on our peaceful coexistence,” Gerstorfer said. We must show solidarity, the joy of living of the people will not be defeated by the terrorists. Provincial Councilor Kaineder saw an act that “is supposed to incite hatred and fear.” But that won’t work. “Freedom, equality, brotherhood. With these values we will fight against terrorism ”, he said.
Lieutenant Governor Haimbuchner was “seriously shocked” by the attack, but only “mildly surprised”. It is time to face reality: “We are not on an island of the blessed. Neutrality will not protect us from attacks ”. People who want to go to war for the Islamic State would have to lose their Austrian citizenship with “immediate effect”.
