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At least five people were killed in the attack in Vienna on Monday night, including the attacker. It is said that he had sympathized with the terrorist militia of the Islamic State (IS) for years and was willing to fight for them. The former lawyer for the killer Nikolaus Rast told the APA that he came from a “completely normal” family. “For me, he was a young man who was unlucky enough to make the wrong friends,” Rast said.
The 20-year-old had citizenship of both Austria and North Macedonia. As Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said, the Viennese authorities carried out a procedure to withdraw his Austrian passport. However, there was “very little evidence of the killer’s active activities” to successfully complete the process.
Participated in the deradicalization program
The Viennese had to answer in court last year because of his connection to IS. According to media reports, her mother approached the authorities under suspicion. The court sentenced him to 22 months in prison and had to participate in a de-radicalization program. He was released early due to a favorable forecast. Consequently, he had fooled everyone, Rast said.
During puberty, the 20-year-old began to grapple with Islam, according to “Der Standard”, which was processing the trial at the time. According to his own statements, at the end of 2016 he ended up in a “fake mosque”. Her performance in school got worse and worse, and there were more and more arguments with her mother. “I wanted to leave home,” he told the court at the time. It is said that he expected a better life from the Islamic State: “An apartment of his own, his own income.”
