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Shortly before, the future Vienna terrorist traveled to Slovakia on July 21 to buy ammunition there.
According to Swiss media, the 18-year-old and the 24-year-old were in Vienna from July 16 to 20. Based on information from Germany, this meeting was observed by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Against Terrorism, he said. The two Zurich Islamists were arrested in Switzerland after the Vienna bombing. It cannot be ruled out that the subsequent attacker in Vienna was also in Switzerland, federal media reported. Also in Germany, five house searches were carried out and two people were arrested. It was the duo that had been invited in Vienna.
The Viennese police yesterday published excerpts of the emergency call protocol from the night of terror on 2 November. This shows how a series of misleading false alarms from the population still caused confusion and panic hours after the killer’s death.
For example, the false alarm due to an alleged “hostage-taking” in a restaurant on Mariahilfer Strasse at exactly 9:30 pm, which led to the 15th operation in progress after the fatal shooting in Seitenstettengasse. At this point, the lone killer had been dead for 81 minutes. Because although Kujtim F. had already been shot by WEGA officials at 8:09 pm, several calls continued to be received from the population: among other things, about new exchanges of gunfire, about corpses in the city park, about alleged murderers who had been spotted in pubs. The police had to investigate all these leads. From 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. alone, there were 539 emergency calls, more than five times more than the night before. The control center received calls “every second.” “Of course we were all under extreme pressure,” the Vienna ORF police officers quoted.
This dynamic and “mobile” terror situation was the “worst case scenario,” he said.
A week after the Islamist terrorist attack in Vienna, the investigations are still in full swing. Who were the people who knew and supported the 20-year-old Islamic State supporter, who tried to travel with a companion from Vienna via Turkey to Syria in 2018 to take part in the fighting?
Two more arrests
On Sunday, the Vienna Criminal Court imposed preventive detention on two other men: a 21-year-old and another 23, who are said to belong to the perpetrator’s environment. A total of ten people between the ages of 16 and 24 have already been arrested. It will be verified if they participated in preparatory events or if they had knowledge of it. The 22-year-old who accompanied the later murderer on his way to Syria is also in prison. In addition, an 18-year-old youth is detained who is said to have encouraged Kujtim F. and his followers to join the Islamic State.
The police published photos of the murder weapons used by the killer: a machete, a pistol, a lot of ammunition and a “Zastava M70” assault rifle, a model of Kalashnikov made in Serbia.
