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There was no doubt that he was a supporter of the radical Islamist terrorist militia “Islamic State” (IS).
The parents of the 20-year-old killer Vienna According to reports in the North Macedonian media, they come from the town of Celopek (Albanian: Cellopeku), about ten kilometers southeast of the city of Tetovo in North Macedonia. The boarding portal “A1on” reported this on Tuesday, citing unofficial information from the North Macedonia police.
According to the same source, the murderer, who had both Austrian and North Macedonian citizenship, was in Modling born. Celopek has around 7,000 inhabitants, mostly Albanians, and is located in northwestern North Macedonia. The Albanian minority makes up about a quarter of the inhabitants of the small Balkan country.
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.
The man was sentenced to 22 months in prison on April 25, 2019 for attempting to travel to Syria to join ISIS. 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). The 20-year-old was shot dead by police forces Monday night near the Ruprechtskirche, the interior minister said.
Search the aggressor’s environment.
As Nehammer explained, large raids have already been carried out in the vicinity of the perpetrator. Specifically, 15 house searches were carried out and several people were arrested. Fejzulai had citizenship of both Austria and North Macedonia.
“He was equipped with a fake explosive belt and an automatic long pistol, a pistol and a machete to carry out this gruesome attack on innocent citizens,” said the interior minister.
Nehammer confirmed to the APA that Fejzulai had posted a photo on his Instagram account prior to the attack that showed him holding two weapons believed to have used in the subsequent attack. It was initially unclear if the 20-year-old had also posted an oath of allegiance to the “Islamic State” (IS) and broadcast videos of the attack to the French satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo” just hours before the crime. The latter was initially reported by the “Bild Zeitung”.
In connection with the attack, two arrests were made in St. Pölten on Tuesday. A police spokesman also confirmed that two house searches had been carried out in the Lower Austrian capital.
The “Kurier” reported online that the contact addresses of the alleged killer in Fuhrmannsgasse and in an apartment block in front of the St. Pölten University Hospital had been “turned over” by special forces. Heavily armed Cobra officials had searched the premises together with the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Against Terrorism.
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