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“The perpetrator has been able to stifle the program of de-radicalization of the judicial system, stun its people and overcome it to be released early,” Interior Minister Karl Nehammer told a news conference.
“As a result, there was no indication that he was radicalized,” the minister added.
Kujtimas Fejzula, 20, who was killed by the police, was armed with a bullet, a pistol and a machete cut by the Kalashnikov machine gun, and was also wearing a fake belt of a deadly terrorist.
According to K. Nehammer, K. Fejzulai had the citizenship of North Macedonia and Austria. Last year, he was sentenced to 22 months in prison for trying to travel to Syria and joining the Islamic State (IS) Jadhadist movement.
Mr. Fejzula, whose name suggests he had Albanian roots, was prematurely released last December after a trial period.
Austrian Justice Minister Alma Zadic said that based on
Under Austrian law, K. Fejzula was released on parole in 2019
in November, having served three-quarters of his sentence, but had
a trial period of three years.
“This allows us to continue to influence the perpetrator, even after the end of his incarceration,” he said, emphasizing that such an effect would not be possible if Ms. Fejzula was released after the end of her term.
for the term of prison – in July of this year.
Mr. Fejzula, who was released for the first time, had to meet periodically with officials from the probation service and the DERAD de-radicalization program.
“As far as we know, he did,” Zadic said.
After Monday’s attack, Fejzula’s apartment was searched and his sympathy for the radicals became apparent.
“It was clear that the attacker, despite all external indications that he had integrated into society, had done exactly the opposite,” acknowledged the minister.
In a photo posted on Facebook, K. Fejzula is seen posing holding a Kalashnikov machine gun and a machete, which was later used in an attack. The appendix to the photo says it “serves the sultanate” and other typical IS messages have been posted, K. said.
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Media: A terrorist who launched an attack in Vienna was able to acquire weapons and ammunition in Slovakia
A terrorist who fired an automatic weapon in Vienna on Monday was able to acquire it and ammunition in Slovakia. This was announced on Tuesday by the Slovak portal “sme.sk”.
According to him, in mid-July the terrorist had arrived in Slovakia to visit his acquaintances. Back and forth he drove a car in which it was easy to hide the gun.
The portal recalls that until 2015, it was possible to officially buy Skorpion welded tubes made in the Czech Republic in Slovakia, which could only fire empty ammunition. This type of weapon was voluntarily purchased by collectors and members of military historical clubs. According to sme.sk, the illegal militants easily restored those weapons to their previous combat properties.
On a Monday, the shots rang out in six locations, including near the synagogue. Five people died and more than 20 were injured. The Austrian government called the attack in Vienna a terrorist act. Residents are advised to avoid public places. The national duel has been declared in the country until Thursday.
Born in Austria
According to a report from the North Macedonia Ministry of the Interior, the young man was born in Mödling, a city south of Vienna.
Earlier, the Vienna authorities made efforts to deprive Fejzula of Austrian citizenship, but they were unsuccessful because “there was not enough evidence of his activities,” Nehammer said.
Police carried out another 18 raids on the attackers’ homes and arrested 14 people.
Police in northern Macedonia said that some 150 of the country’s citizens had gone to fight the jihadist camp in Iraq and Syria. Most of them went there in 2012-2016.
Most of these people belonged to the Macedonian Albanian ethnic minority, which accounted for about a quarter of the 2.1 million. population of the country. Most of the Macedonian Albanians are Muslims.
About half of the jihadist supporters who had left returned. Many others who had been in contact with ISIS were sentenced to prison in North Macedonia or in other countries.
A report from the Macedonian Ministry of the Interior states that it has received a request for information on three people with Austrian and Macedonian citizenship, including Mr. Fejzula.
“The Department of International Police Cooperation under the Ministry of the Interior immediately began to cooperate with colleagues in Austria. We cooperate intensively on all elements related to this case,” said the report of the Ministry of the Interior.
Italian Foreign Minister proposes EU “Patriot Law” after attack in Vienna
The Italian chancellor said after the attacks in Vienna and Nice on Tuesday that the European Union should consider an American-style “Patriot Act” to strengthen the fight against terrorism.
In a statement on social media, Luigi Di Maio says that the EU and Italy must strengthen their security, call for stricter controls on mosques in their country and take measures against illegal immigration.
But he also said it was time “to start thinking about something more important for the whole EU, something like the American Patriot Act, because today we are all children of the same European nation.”
“The security of one state equals the security of all others. I will also discuss this with my colleagues in the next few days,” he said.
The Patriot Act in the US was passed after the September 11 attacks in the US and gave law enforcement agencies broad counter-terrorism powers, including surveillance.
Referring to the recent attacks in Nice and Vienna, Di Maio said: “It is clear that in the face of all this, Europe and Italy cannot continue to limit themselves to words.”
In Austria, three days of mourning began on Tuesday after Monday’s attack in Vienna, when the attacker shot four people. Preliminary results of the investigation show that the alleged assailant, who was killed, was sympathetic to the Islamic State jihadist movement.
On Thursday, three people were killed by a knife-wielding assailant in a riot at a church in Nice, France. The Tunisian Islamist, who recently arrived in Europe, is to blame for the attack.
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