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In the Monday night attack in central Vienna, the 20-year-old killer killed four people and wounded 22, some seriously, before police shot him. “They were interpersonal tragedies that I will never forget,” a police officer who was involved in the operation told the APA. “There were repeated shots. We have rescued the wounded and we did not know where to go. Because we didn’t know where that idiot was, ”he said.
Passersby in shock
The officer arrived at 8:05 pm in the local Bermuda Triangle district at Schwedenplatz. At that time, there was “logically chaos on the police radio, the work at the place went very well,” the policeman reported. “We got together in teams of four, even people we didn’t know, and we went from restaurant to pub and secured them.” “We looked to see where there were still wounded inside, we took them out and ordered the others to stay in the bars.” At the same time, the ambulance set up a tent on Schwedenplatz where the injured were treated. “In teams of two we brought the wounded to the rescue while the others continued to secure,” the officer recalled. Passersby were all shocked, as were the injured. One woman who suffered serious eye injuries “obviously didn’t notice and kept apologizing,” the police officer said.
“I didn’t know where I was sure”
Another passerby was disoriented in the danger zone, when the killer was still shooting, walking. “We took her out of the immediate danger zone, but she kept stopping,” recalls the policeman, who stood in front of the woman and ordered her to stay behind. “If he shoots me again, he will hit you,” the woman told him. “It was tedious, we didn’t know where it was safe.”
Even after a WEGA official shot the 20-year-old killer, the situation remained dangerous. “We didn’t know if there was a second perpetrator, there were always reports of more exchanges of gunfire.” The situation was unreal, the night was mild and there were still tables in front of the bars. “When we were walking through the bars, cell phones and wallets were still on the tables, jackets were hanging from the wardrobes, people, understandably, left everything and ran away,” recalls the officer. “The photos were so bad.” After the mission, a colleague stated: “We ran to where everyone fled. But you just work on the situation, ”the policeman said. The operation was “unreal”, that a terrorist attack would take place in Vienna, no one expected that.
