Terrorist attack in Vienna: acquaintances allegedly wanted to stop the attacker – Wien Aktuell



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A friend of the Vienna attacker allegedly tried to dissuade him from his plan.


A friend of the Vienna attacker allegedly tried to dissuade him from his plan.
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An acquaintance of the Vienna shooter who was arrested on suspicion of complicity or complicity claims that he tried to contact him by phone when he learned of the shooting in the city center and saw the first photos of the shooter. The 21-year-old says he wanted to contact Kujtim Fejzulai to dissuade him from his terrorist project.

Now it is checked if this is correct by recording call data. The 21-year-old is said to have stood out in police questioning after his arrest that he would never have believed Fejzulai would do such a thing. According to the information available to the APA, this is the man who probably accompanied the later killer to Slovakia in July, where he wanted to buy ammunition for an assault rifle.

Terror in Vienna: ten men around the attacker in custody

Two other suspects, who have also been in custody since last weekend, had also recognized their friend Fejzulai in Sagittarius in video recordings made by eyewitnesses to the attack, which went viral on the Internet on the night of November 2. The two are said to have gone for a police inspection shortly after 11 p.m. and named the 20-year-old there as the perpetrator, a circumstance that, if it had actually happened, does not necessarily suggest that the two were directly involved in the act of terrorism. been involved. Regardless, the two men, whom the Office for the Protection of the Constitution attributes to the radical Islamist scene, were arrested as possible perpetrators that same night, possibly on the basis of other previously unknown incriminating facts.

Two other detainees, a total of ten men from the attacker’s entourage are said to be currently in custody in Vienna, and they are said to have visited Fejzulai at his apartment just hours before the crime to return a book to him. They had visited the same mosque in Vienna-Meidling, which has since been closed by the authorities, because radical Islamist content was represented there. After their arrest, both stated that they did not notice anything special in their acquaintance. They would not have known anything about his terrorist plans.



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