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The attacker, who killed four people in Vienna on Monday, appears to have acted alone, according to videos available to police.
At the same time, he and the security risks he posed were warned months ago by neighboring Slovakia, but Interior Minister Karl Nechamer said the signal had not received the attention it deserved.
At a press conference, Nehamer acknowledged a “communication problem” and the processing of information provided by Slovakia after the attacker tried to buy ammunition there. According to him, an independent commission should review the actions in the Austrian intelligence case.
Nehamer reiterated that the assassinated attacker had “perfectly” misled the jihadist integrated de-radicalization program.
Miscellaneous data
At the same time, Slovakia informed Austria that the attacker had tried to buy ammunition and that he was sympathetic to the Islamic State; it was this part that was “lost” in communication, and the murdered perpetrator was convicted of attempting to join the group a year earlier.
The man was unable to take ammunition for a Kalashnikov rifle from Bratislava. As early as July, when he tried to do so, the Slovak authorities relayed information about him to his Austrian counterparts.
He said that the 14 people arrested yesterday were between 18 and 28 years old and of “migratory origin”, some with foreign citizenship.
Conflicting data came in yesterday, after the police’s initial guess was for at least a few attackers, some of whom are wanted. After hours of leaking information about new detainees from Vienna to Linz, authorities said there was nothing to suggest a second attacker.
In the evening, however, North Macedonia (whose citizen, in addition to Austrian, is the murdered murderer) announced that it had applied for cooperation through Europol for a total of three citizens with dual citizenship in Austria, one of whom was the attacker.
