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After ISIS adopted the attack that targeted the Austrian capital Vienna, an Austrian Interior Ministry official says the detainees who were arrested in Vienna were linked to what he called “extremist Islamic circles.”
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The Dutch chancellor lays flowers at a monument at the site of a terrorist attack in Vienna (AFP).
An Austrian Interior Ministry official said Thursday that the 15 detainees arrested in connection with an armed attack in central Vienna on Monday belonged to what he called “extremist Islamic circles.”
“You can see that they all have ties to what he described as” extremist Islamic circles, “said Public Security Director Franz Rove at a news conference.
And the “Amaq” agency affiliated with “ISIS” claimed responsibility for the latter for the terrorist attack that targeted the Austrian capital Vienna.
On Monday night, Vienna witnessed simultaneous shootings in 6 different locations, carried out by several terrorists, one of whom was killed by the Austrian police and resulted in deaths and injuries.
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurtz described the Vienna attack as “a clash between civilization and barbarism, not between Austrians and immigrants.”
As for Interior Minister Karl Nihamer, he indicated that the killer has roots in North Macedonia and has a criminal record for a terrorist organization, and was sentenced to prison last year for attempting to travel to Syria and join ISIS.
The terrorist attack, which drew widespread international condemnation, came a few days after a series of other attacks that took place in France.
The French Interior Minister expected France to witness more terrorist attacks in the next period.
French police reported that an attacker killed 3, including a woman, who was beheaded last Thursday in a church in Nice, France, in an incident that the city’s mayor called a “terrorist act.”
This comes days after the incident of Samuel Patti, a French teacher who was beheaded for showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in one of his classes.
It should be noted that, last Monday, the British security services announced that the alert level for a terrorist threat has been raised to “dangerous”, which is the fourth level in 5 levels.
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