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Thursday, December 03, 2020
With steel cables and wedges
Life in prison after attacks on ICE
Two years ago, a 44-year-old Iraqi tried several times to derail ICE trains in Germany. He supposedly didn’t want to kill anyone. He is now sentenced to life in prison in Vienna. He is said to have acted as a supporter of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist militia.
After a series of Islamist attacks on ICE trains on the Munich-Nuremberg route, a 44-year-old Iraqi was sentenced to life in prison in Vienna. The jury was convinced the man was acting on behalf of the terrorist militia of the Islamic State (IS), the Austrian news agency APA reported.
His wife was acquitted before the Vienna Regional Court. She denied any knowledge. The man was convicted of multiple assassination attempts as a terrorist offense, serious property damage as a terrorist offense, and membership in a terrorist organization. Decisions are not final.
According to the indictment, the Iraqi wanted to carry out several attacks on trains on the ICE route between Munich and Nuremberg in 2018. In Allersberg he attacked the trains with a construction of beams, wooden wedges and then with a steel cable laid over the tracks . An ICE with 160 passengers at a speed of 204 collided with the steel cable. Except for a flash of light and damage to the windshield and paint, nothing happened. Furthermore, in December 2018, the defendant is said to have thrown a rope with hook claws at the airline at an S-Bahn station in Berlin to derail a train. This attack also failed. He forgot the original of a threatening letter while copying it at a copy shop. That became an important clue.
It only remained due to faulty technical designs by man in case of material damage to the locomotives. No one was injured. The Iraqi living in Vienna as a recognized refugee has confessed the facts. But he denied any killing intent and terrorist background. “He wanted to get attention,” said his defense attorney. Their objective was to withdraw foreign troops from Iraq.
