Police were notified about the terrorist, but did not follow up. On Monday, he killed four and wounded 22.

VIENNA (Aftenposten): The terrorist who attacked Vienna on Monday was killed by the police. Their network is being investigated further.

The Austrian capital, Vienna, is a different city from the rest of the country. They have a great awareness of their own identity, no less related to the coffee culture. It hit hard when a 20-year-old shot himself with an automatic rifle Monday, in the middle of the nightlife zone. He was killed by the police.

Austria has had three days of national mourning. But in Vienna, a crude comment has become the very symbol of the city’s unity. Video recorded on a mobile phone during Monday’s terror attack allegedly shows a resident yelling at the terrorist who shot: “Schleich di, du Oaschloch,” roughly translated: stay away, you idiot.

The statement is shared on social media as an expression of the Vienna mindset and the city’s response to terror.

On social media, people try to stifle the perpetrator’s own staging of himself as a warrior. One would avoid using his name and instead refer to him as “Oaschloch”.

The Swiss newspaper Blick has written about him as “Oaschloch (20)”.

Close mosques

The man who shook Vienna on Monday with a terrorist attack was himself from the city. The 20-year-old was an ISIS sympathizer with roots in North Macedonia. Your network is now being investigated.

Ten Austrians remain in custody. On Friday morning there were raids in various places in Germany. Also in Switzerland, two men aged 18 and 24 have been arrested.

The Austrian government has decided to close the radical mosques. Police were in two mosques in Vienna on Friday afternoon.

Four dead, 22 injured

As of Tuesday afternoon, investigators believed several perpetrators. In hindsight, it is clear that the terrorist was operating alone and within a 75 meter radius. The nightlife area was full of people, it was 18 degrees and the next day all the restaurants had to close due to the pandemic.

Four were killed:

• A young soccer lover who had gone out for a drink. He also had roots in North Macedonia, like the author.
• A 44-year-old woman employed by a neighborhood business was on her way home. His sister has written a letter to the Austrians, published in the newspaper Der Standard. Here he asks that the attack not cause more division and hatred, the dead had not wanted it in any way.
• A 39-year-old man who was in front of a fast food restaurant.
• A German art student who worked as a waitress.

In addition, 22 were injured. Eleven are still in the hospital, including a police officer.

I wanted to buy ammunition

The terrorist had dual citizenship. In 2018, he was arrested on his way to Syria and convicted of ties to the Islamic State. The sentence was 22 months in prison. Due to his young age, he did not have to serve his sentence.

In July, the perpetrator was in Slovakia, where he tried to buy ammunition. The local police discovered him and alerted Austrian intelligence. The alert was not followed.

The case is now being investigated to find out how something like this could happen. The failure of security authorities to follow up on a man convicted of affiliation with the Islamic State has also caused much outrage.

Weakened intelligence

Interior Minister Karl Nehammer of the conservative ÖVP is trying to blame his predecessor Herbert Kickl of the right-wing populist FPÖ.

In 2018, Kickl was responsible for a raid on the intelligence service. Many, including Interior Minister Nehammer, believe that Kickl’s approach significantly weakened Austrian intelligence.

Others point out that ÖVP has had power both before and after Kickl and must take responsibility.