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According to information from Germany, the jihadist meeting in Vienna in July was observed by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Against Terrorism (BVT). So far only two Germans have visited, but now it has been announced that two young Swiss men were also there who were arrested in Switzerland after the attack in Vienna. This meeting took place immediately before the attacker’s trip to Slovakia, where he wanted to buy ammunition for his assault rifle. The Ministry of the Interior did not want to say more about this at the moment.
According to the Swiss media, the federal threats were in Vienna between July 16 and 20. The 20-year-old killer reportedly may also have traveled to Switzerland. In Germany, the house searches of five young people were carried out after the terrorist attack, two of them were those who were in Vienna. In Austria, two other suspects close to the perpetrator were arrested on Sunday. With them and eight suspects who were taken into custody on Friday, the suspicion is in the room that they may have been involved in or may have known about the murderer’s preparatory acts.
The associated irritations were sparked by two demonstrations in Vienna on Sunday: one before it even prompted an apology from the police, the second to a new dispute between ÖVP and FPÖ. Former FPÖ Interior Minister Herbert Kickl drew attention to an anti-French demonstration planned by Muslims in front of the French embassy, which should have been directed against the Mohamed cartoons, among other things, and demanded its cancellation. Deployment of “radical Islamists”. After a moment’s hesitation, the police banned the originally authorized rally.
Kickl accused Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) of another failure and called for his resignation. Nehammer, on the other hand, announced that in the future he would be tougher against assemblies based on radical ideas. He had instructed the Director General of Public Security, Franz Ruf, to “scrutinize” meetings with radical or extreme ideas.
There were also problems elsewhere: in Josefstadt, a disruptive action by former PEGIDA spokesman and right-wing publicist Georg Immanuel Nagel took place in Josefstadt, causing great irritation. From a vehicle, he filled the area with gunfire and a muezzin’s call to prayer through loudspeakers. The vehicle was accompanied by a police car. After outraged reactions from all sides, the police apologized for not ending the disruption early.
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