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Members of the Austrian Police – Archives
On Monday, Austrian security forces and police raided several sites and arrested dozens of suspects as part of their counter-terrorism plan.
Austrian police said they raided more than 60 anti-terror raids that included sites linked to the Brotherhood and Hamas.
Austrian police were reported to have arrested more than 70 suspects in a raid campaign against various suspicious associations affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.
According to the Austrian Prosecutor’s Office, the raids were carried out in 4 different regions, according to Agence France-Presse.
The Public Ministry clarified that this campaign is not linked to the attack that occurred in Vienna last week, in which 5 people died, including the attacker.
The Styrian Region Prosecutor’s Office stated that the investigation, which began about a year ago, targets “more than 70 suspects and various associations suspected of belonging to and supporting the Brotherhood and Hamas terrorist organizations.”
Austrian authorities inspected 18 homes and arrested 15 people in the country in connection with the Vienna attack on 2 November.
He noted that among those detained, four of them had prior terrorism-related convictions, and many of them had criminal records, and authorities in neighboring Switzerland detained two people this week.
The Austrian authorities stated that the author of the Vienna attack was named “Kotim Faizullah”, was 20 years old and had dual Austrian and North Macedonian citizenship.
He was previously convicted of trying to join ISIS in Syria and was released in early December.
The authorities have opened an investigation into why Faizullah was not placed under surveillance despite receiving a notification from the Slovak authorities that he had tried to buy ammunition for assault rifles from a Bratislava shop in July.
