Austria fatal stabbing suspect had ‘Islamic terror motive’: officials – National

Austrian Authorities said Sunday of six people who was performed a 14 year old young was performed by a man with possible connections with the Islamic state group that appeared solely.

The defendant, a 23-year-old Syrian, was arrested to the attack, which found on Saturday afternoon in the center of the southern town of villach, close to the main square. Police said he used a blow mess. These injured were two-year-old boys and men from 28, 32 and 32 years old. Two were seriously injured and two others also get sick treatment, while one was treated for minor injuries.

“This is an Islamistic attack with a requested by an attacker who is radically with the Internet,” interior Minister told reported report lists in villach sunday.

State Gov. Peter Kaiser thanks a 42-year-old man, also a Syrian, work for a food ratio that advisory the defendant and prevent the situation from becoming worse. “This shows how closely terrorist, but also humanely well unite in one and the same nationality,” he said.

When the focus shift after migration and asylum seekers, that the eventually will be necessary to carry out “a mass screening without carrying out, as these murderer was not conspicuous.”

He didn’t want to work out about his plans. It was unclear how long the defendant had been in Austria in Austria, although authorities said he had a residence permit.

Austria is the furthest right leader Herbert Kickl, given a national election four months ago, called for “a strict crackdown on asylum” in the wake of the wake.

On Sunday kickl said that since all other parties failed in Austria the necessary asylum, it is crucial for his party to charge the interiorministics – that is in charge of asylum – in any future government.

Past Kool Coaliet Calls In Austria in Austria Fall for a second time as the Freedom and the Kickl and the Conservative people were unable to be the interior ministry.

Migration was a prominent subject that leads to the election that resulted in the party’s party his first national election Surfarment Since World War II. The subject has taken center stage in many European countries, with far right parties that make in elections in elections.

On Saturday police in neighborhood, a 2-year-old girl and her mother two days, after being injured in a car attack in the demonstration of a car ramming in Munich. It marked the fifth attack with immigrants in Germany in Germany, with migration that becomes an important issue to a coming elections on February 23.

The Mayor of Villach, Günther Albel, said that the attack was a “stitch in the heart of the city.”

State Police Director Michaela Kohlweiss said

“The current picture is that of a lonely perpetrator, Kohlweiss said. Police presence will be increased in the streets of villaches and in the weeks ahead, added Kohlweiss.

The Villach ATTACK highly marks the second deadly extremist attack in the early years in Austria. In November 2020, a man who previously tried to participate in the Islamic State Ground, armed, armed with a false explosive vest, kill four people before they have shot through police.

Last Auguste authorities fell an attack on Taylor Swift shows in Vienna who was inspired by the Islamic state group.

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The Islamic religious community in Austria expressed sympathies in the victims and their families in a challenge on Sunday and said it “fully committed to peaceful and respectable contesticated.” The Chairman of Islamic Religious Community, ümit Fural, added that the assault has “nothing in common with the true values ​​of our faith.”

Residents began to place candles on the site of the attack in the city of 60,000 inhabitants. A group of young people who knew the young who died in attack on Sunday morning in the crime scene on Sunday morning to mourn and tears of light-media, local media.

President Alexander Van Der Bellen mentioned “terrible.”

“No words can make the suffering mind, the horror, the fear. My thoughts are with the decline of the deceased victim and the injured,” places at X.

The free Syrian community of Austria gave up a statement of distancing him from the attack and expresses his deepest pitymen with the families of the victims. “We had to fly them all, our homeland, as we were no longer safe – no one who voluntarily left them. We are grateful to find asylum in Austria,” said the association.

Kickl wrote on x Saturday he is “bewildered by the horrible act in villach.”

“At the same time, I am angry – angry with those politicians have spreads, raped, raped, gang, gangs and other capitalism to become the order of the day in Austria. This is a crime of first class of the system, for which a young man in Villach is now to pay with his life, “Kickl said.

According to the interior manist 24,941 foreigners requested outside of asylum in Austria in 2024. The largest group of applicants was out of Syria, followed by Afghanistan.

The past two years, the number of asylum seekers are significantly reduced. In 2022, applications in excess of 100,000, while about 59,000 persons searched asylum in 2023.

Conservative Party Leader Christian Stocker said to X that the attacker is to be brought to justice and are punished with the full force. “

The leader of the social democrats, Andreas Babler, said, “Crime like this would just not happen in our society.”