Attack in Vienna: there are dead and wounded. Shoot to the center: “Attack in 6 points of the capital”. The government: “Action in progress, persecution”

“They started shoot randomly in a nearby place. “The mayor of Vienna, Michael Ludwig, describes the attack that took place in the Austrian capital on Monday night. the command, armed with rifles, began filming at 8 pm in the central Seitenstettengasse, near the synagogue (which, however, was already closed at the time), and then moved to six different zones from the center, including Schwedenplatz. All on the eve of emergency shutdown anti-Covid scheduled for Tuesday. The police have announced that an operation “large scaleIt is still ongoing and that there are “several injured people.” Through Twitter, all citizens are invited to stay at home and not use the public transport. According to tv Orf there would be a dead, while the newspaper delivery courier speaks “At least 2 victims”, including a passerby. The health authorities confirm the presence of 15 injured, 7 severe, although some people are not known to have been taken hostage in a Japanese restaurant in Mariahilfer Strasse. Other witnesses speak of an ongoing raid in Simmering, Brigittenau and ElHilton Hotel near the city park. The Minister of the Interior Karl Nehammer stated it was “a attack“Performed by various subjects” who are still moving around the city. “The attackers, he added,” are dangerous and have heavy weapons“. A man with”Assault rifle” has been delicate by agents, while others I’m running away. There is no confirmation on the arrest of a suspect. The authorities warned everyone the citizens do not leave your apartments and avoid public places. The area around the city center was largely closed and the lines of the metropolitan currently don’t stop at seasons of the first district.

Rebuilding the attack – The dynamics of the attack, which takes place a few days after a Paris me nice, still unclear. The truth, reports the police, is that the first shots were 8 pm on Seitenstettengasse, not even 600 meters from the central Stephansplatz. Then there were several shootings, at least six, in so many places in the city. According to the newspaper’s website delivery courier, these are the Salzgries, Seitenstettengasse, Fleischmarkt, Morzinplatz, Graben and Bauernmarkt. The agents ask on Twitter that photos or videos not be published on social networks so as not to hinder the ongoing bombing. The metro station of Schottenring, reports the newspaper’s website The standard, he was surrounded by special forces men. Helicopters they are flying over the area around the synagogue where gods have been heard Shooting and he also took the field The army to protect sensitive places, from foreign embassies. “I saw a person running through Seitenstettengasse shooting wildly with an automatic weapon, “a witness told television Orf. “Then he became the ‘Roter Engel’ (a local, ed) and from there to Schwedenplatz. He kept shooting wildly there. Then the police arrived ”. Other witnesses speak of at least “100 shotgun shotsHeard on the street. Fifteen have been injured so far hospitalized in Vienna hospitals, informs the agency What Christoph Mierau, spokesman for the health network. Hospitalized people are likely to have suffered serious injuries. Mierau did not specify if they were gunshot wounds or caused by an explosion. “We still cannot define the dead and injured in terms of numbers, we are still in the process of getting an overview,” added ER colleague Daniel. Melcher, confirming that there would be several victims.

The Jewish community – Excluding, for now at least, the hypothesis that the attackers’ first target was the synagogue by Seitenstettengasse. The President of the Austrian Jewish Communities, Oskar German, wrote on Twitter that “at the moment it cannot be said if the temple of the city was one of the objectives. However, what is certain is that both the Seitenstettengasse synagogue and the office building at the same address were no longer in operation and closed at the time of the first shotsClarifies. “In any case there was a shooting in the immediate neighborhood of the city temple. All the faithful were asked not to enter or go out into the street and to remain safe until the authorities had clarified the facts. A confirmed reconstruction in delivery courier also by the rabbi Schlomo Hofmeister, who lives in an apartment directly above the city’s synagogue. According to his testimony, “the author has moved in the direction of High market and the church of San Ruperto ”and allegedly shot the people who were sitting in the garden of a pub at Judengasse and Seitenstettengasse, “he did not point to the synagogue.”

From Kurz to Macron, the reactions – The condolences of the heads of state and government around the world for the incident. “After France, a friendly country is attacked. And the our europe“Wrote the French president on Twitter Emmanuel macron, who shortly heard Austrian Prime Minister Kurz on the phone. “Our enemies they need to know who they are dealing with. We we won’t give up. We French share the shock and pain of Austrian village struck tonight by an attack on heart from its capital, Vienna ”. Hard condemnation also of the European authorities, with the president of the Council of the EU Charles Michel who dedicates a thought “for the victims and for the people of Vienna affected by this terrible attack. We are next to Sebastian Kurz“. The German Foreign Minister Heiko maas declared that “we must not give in to the hatred of those who try to divide our societies”, while the Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte recalled that “there is no place for hatred and violence in ours European common house. Proximity to the Austrian people, to the families of the victims and injured ”. Late in the evening, the thanks came from the Austrian Chancellor, who speaks of “disgusting terrorist attack“:” We thank the leaders of the European Union and ours international partners for their expressions of solidarity ”, reads a tweet. “The whole country returns a thought victims, to the injured and their families, to whom I express my warmest sentiments condolence“.

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