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The Islamic State today claimed responsibility for the attack in Vienna, which killed at least four people.
The ad attributes to a “soldier of the caliphate” the attacks carried out near a synagogue and the State Opera in the Austrian capital.
In another text, accompanied by a photo of a bearded gunman named “Abu Dagna al-Albani”, Amaq refers to a “firearm attack carried out yesterday (Monday) by an Islamic State fighter in his city.” Βιέννης ».
He also posted a short video in which the attacker, alone in front of the camera, pledges allegiance to the official leader of the jihadist organization Abu Ibrahim al-Hassemi al-Qurasi.
No accomplices of the perpetrator emerge from visual footage – 14 suspect arrests
Austrian police arrested 14 people linked to the main suspect in the attack in Vienna, Austrian Interior Minister Carl Nehammer said at a news conference.
A 20-year-old Austrian citizen from North Macedonia is the main suspect in the attack that left 4 dead and 22 injured. The suspect misled the denationalization program and gave the impression that he had joined, while doing the exact opposite, the Austrian interior minister said.
The analysis of the scenes of the attack based on the visual material of the mobile phones does not show the existence of a second perpetrator, he said, adding, however, that there is still to be ruled out that there is a second perpetrator. At the morning press conference, the Interior Minister had declared that at least one more author was missing.
The main suspect was neutralized by the police in nine minutes, the Austrian Foreign Minister clarified, while the Security Minister stressed that the rapid identification of his data resulted in the police raids that followed the police and the arrests that followed. .
The attack began around 8:00 p.m. local time. Special police forces were called to the scene and ended the attack by shooting and killing the man on September 20, Carl Nehammer said. “Without prompt intervention, the incident would have been even worse,” he said.
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