Massacre in Vienna, the murderer dreamed of fighting in Syria. Getting out of jail because he was just a child – Corriere.it

It’s not even about finding conclusive evidence. Everyone agrees that he prayed a lot. In the ten-story city hall building in the Liesing district, which is his family’s last residence, there is a garage used as a mosque, one of many no-man’s-lands. We live together says the young man of Moroccan origin who has just described the staging with the French president. But the gap between us and you is widening. Interpol letters accumulate knowledge but do not help to understand. I was twenty years old. He was originally from North Macedonia. Last of four siblings. The father is a worker in the construction sector, without any religious inclination, as he stated at the time of his son’s trial. He was born in Modling, a suburb of Vienna. Dual citizenship. A promise of Austrian boxing, until he decided to leave the competition and dedicate himself only to Islam and the dreams of Jihad. He was an ISIS sympathizer and nothing was missed. A complaint for social rejoicing after the charlie hebdo massacre. Participation in sports training camps in the field around Liesing is so suspicious that the two organizers were expelled from Austria in 2017. On April 25, 2019, Fejzulai was sentenced to 22 months in prison for trying to go to Syria and join ISIS.

Already in 2018 it was reported as a Vienna-based Isis sympathizer who had planned to come to Afghanistan. But the alarm had been raised by Germany, not Austria, where a report indicated him as incapable of taking concrete action, in short, a kind of harmless fanatic. In any case, he remains in prison for a few months. The following December 5, he was released on probation in application of the benefits of a law that protects young people under 25 years of age who have not committed serious crimes. And so we return to the sidewalk in front of the complex of twelve municipal houses all the same, one in row after another, to Fejzulai’s acquaintances who do not justify what he has done, but do not repudiate his ideas. There is also a man in a suit and tie, who has been visiting his family. His name is Nikolaus Rast, he was his lawyer. They are good people. He just had the misfortune to run into bad friends. If I hadn’t gone to certain mosques, he would have become an excellent boxer, and that’s it. It was a bit strange, but I certainly never imagined that he could become a murderer. We always do the character’s story.

We always tell the killer like hiding who knows what secret and not the usual process indoctrination in prison, on the internet, including the final epiphany complete with machine gun and machete, which appeared on his Instagram account, which was apparently full of other rather explicit messages. Even the places look alike every time, this suburb is no different from that of Strasbourg where the fanatic who two years ago also killed poor Antonio Megalizzi lived, and many others. But perhaps, without wanting to bother with even unfair definitions as a breeding ground, the climate that is breathed here helps you better understand individual personal history. Younger children who gaze admiringly at older ones than journalists make jokes about French pedophiles and friends of Jews, the litany of prayers coming out of the basement window.

They are called by those from 23, which is the district number. 97,000 people live there, 14 percent foreigners, the highest percentage in Vienna. So far from the center that they are considered a lost cause, like Favoriten, the other difficult neighborhood in the capital. Last Thursday, some fifty young Turks stormed the church of Saint Anthony, overturning benches and confessionals in the usual cry of Allah Akbar. And the same thing happened in the nearby Reumanplatz, where a public moment of prayer by a Catholic group was interrupted by some Afghan and Syrian children with firecrackers and insults. Austria is the European country with the highest rate of volunteers who have gone to the Middle Eastern provinces compared to its population.

In the last two years, almost out of time, 313 young people, with an average age of 24, joined ISIS or tried to do so. Almost two hundred of them came from Vienna, and of them, all had present or past residences in the places where Fejzulai lived. Who has now become the most famous, never having managed to go to Syria, but using the shortcut of massacring civilians at home. He was a good believer, a girl with no name tells us. Meanwhile, darkness fell. But the Christmas lights, which were installed yesterday in a row of three streetlights, do not turn on. Someone immediately stoned them.