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The terrorist attack in Vienna could have been prevented
The Austrian Ministry of Justice received information from the Ministry of the Interior about the imminent terrorist attack only on the night of the tragedy.
Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer admitted that there was an error in interdepartmental communication, because Slovak security forces warned Austrian counterintelligence about a criminal from Vienna who wanted to buy ammunition in Slovakia. The head of the Interior Ministry announced it on Wednesday, November 4, in a briefing.
“In the last hours, information emerged that the Slovak special service, some time before the terrorist act, informed the counterintelligence of the Austrian Interior Ministry about the criminal,” Nehammer said.
He clarified that the man arrested for the terrorist attack in Vienna in 2019 was conditionally released from prison, and in the summer of 2020, the Slovak police registered his attempt to buy ammunition and reported it to his Austrian colleagues.
According to media reports, the Austrian Ministry of Justice received this information from the Ministry of the Interior only on the night of the terrorist attack.
According to Nehammer, he is initiating the creation of an independent commission of inquiry to study “how something happened that should not have happened” and “where it is necessary to control to better protect the system.”
In addition, the head of the department partially blamed the former Minister of Internal Affairs Herbert Kikl for the incident, for the fact that at one point he committed deficiencies in the work of counterintelligence and therefore impaired the work of the state security service.
We will recall, earlier in the center of Vienna there were several armed attacks simultaneously. Unidentified people attacked a synagogue, a restaurant and a Jewish center. As a result, five people died.
Later it was learned that the suspect in the terrorist attack in Vienna was arrested, he acted alone.
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