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At exactly 8 pm on Monday night, the first emergency call about shooting came in downtown Vienna. “A patrolman fired his first shot at the murderer at 8:03 pm,” said Director General of Public Safety Franz Ruf. Just five minutes later, police surrounded the shooter in a backyard after five shootings at Ruprechtsplatz. At 8:09 pm Kujtim F. (20) was eliminated by a WEGA officer with a shot aimed below the left shoulder blade, according to Ruf.
The fact that a relatively large number of special forces were rapidly deployed on the night of the attack was actually due to the fact that a large-scale raid against jihadist circles was planned for the early hours of the morning. Contrary to other reports, this was not directed against the killer.
In a short time, 190 Cobra officers and 100 WEGA officers with heavy weapons were ready in the city of Vienna. “It was not clear for a long time how many perpetrators there are. There have been many false reports of hostage-taking. A man with a violin case was mistaken for a murderer. We had to go through the city ”, explain the head of the Directorate of Special Forces (DSE) of the Ministry of the Interior, Bernhard Treibreif, and the commander of Cobra headquarters in Wiener Neustadt, Hannes Gulnbrein.
