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Soldiers and policemen took over the center of Vienna on Tuesday, the first protecting prominent objects, especially the embassies, “handing over” law enforcement officers to the investigation after the terrorist attack and the protection of the population. On-site report.

Sleepy-faced pedestrians crossed the Graben Tuesday morning, still talking about the panic that lasted after the Monday night shooting. A young woman told the state ORFnot closing his eyes for a moment, another spoke of not letting his two sons go to school. After all, the terrorist attack is not over yet, the authorities do not know exactly how many people participated in the attack on the Austrian capital. Regardless, the mayor, Michael Ludwig, acted quickly, signaling as early as Monday night that it was not mandatory to go to school on Tuesday.

According to the news, many parents took advantage of the opportunity, with very few children showing up at schools.

There were many in the first district on Monday night, before the second “lockdown” was announced from midnight, they were still in a hurry to go to the theater and concerts. Or they were just sitting on chairs on the streets of cafes and restaurants, the temperature was even close to 20 degrees Celsius around 8 p.m. Police and eyewitnesses said that between 100 and 150 shots were fired, and the Secretary of the Interior , Karl Nehammer, only said that the order’s guards were in the center a few minutes after eight hours and one of the terrorists (who “still live” was seen by several television stations as they ran through the narrow streets with heavy weapons ), they were shot between 20 am and 9 pm His body did not move for hours, they did not know if he was wearing an explosive belt or simply a deceptively similar device (In the morning, it turned out that the belt was a disguise).

To know this so far about the terrorist attack in Vienna

According to the Austrian Interior Minister, one of the attackers shot by the authorities was a sympathizer of the Islamic State. There are already four civilian casualties in the terror attack, as reported Tuesday morning.

The attack began at the center of Vienna’s religious Judaism, the Seitenstettengasse, in the city’s largest synagogue, called the Stadt Temple. Oskar Deutsche, the Viennese community leader, said there were no events in the building on Monday night, the door was kept closed and exceptionally no armed guards kept order. Perhaps that is why they did not start shooting at the religious building, but on the public terrace of the restaurants on the street called the Bermuda Triangle, as the official accounts say, they fired indiscriminately. Rabbi Schlomo Hofmánner, who lives in Seilerstett, looked out the window at the effects of the shots and found the great silence surprising. As he said,

people in distress were so scared that the word literally boiled in their throats.

Shots were fired at six locations in the city center, including reports of a young man who eventually managed to hide behind a stone wall and later find refuge with the police.

The accompanying police and counter-terrorism forces, as well as firefighters and people from the Vienna Transport Company, tried to get scared people off the streets, closing the doors of restaurants and cultural facilities. There was a performance at the Opera, the Burgtheater, the director of the latter, Bogdan Roscic, at the end of the play, when the actors were applauded, announcing a terrorist attack, no one could leave the building for at least an hour, while the The theater’s imposing main staircase was made available to smokers.

Four people died and 17 were hospitalized, including seven in serious, life-threatening conditions, according to reports Tuesday morning. Among those heard were two men and two women, one of whom was a member of the police.

The assassin who claimed to be a believer in the Islamic State DiePresse According to the newspaper, he was in his 30s, had previously arrived in the Austrian capital as a refugee and his citizenship had not been disclosed. Arriving at the murder with a huge arsenal of weapons, the police identified his apartment, the front door of which was blown up. They then raided additional apartments and arrested several people.

Update: According to recent news, the perpetrator was a 20-year-old man of Macedonian and Austrian citizenship who had long been in the limelight of authorities after the interior minister said he had entered the criminal record for activities terrorists: specifically in Syria to join the Islamic State for He was sentenced to 22 months, but was released in December for good behavior. The man was also armed with an automatic weapon, a pistol and a machete.



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