16-year-old jihadist with Turkish background in custody
It appears that Vienna has narrowly escaped a jihadist knife attack at Vienna's Central Station planned to occur on September 11. A 16-year-old Austrian citizen of Turkish background is in custody. The below article from today's Heute (Austria) is translated by Fousesquawk.
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of potential jihadists continue to pour into Europe with no end in sight. What an insane situation.
https://www.heute.at/s/16-jaehriger-stand-kurz-vor-messer-blutbad-am-bahnhof-100292394
September 19, 2023
16-year-old on verge of knife bloodbath at train station
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According to a report, the 16-year-old wanted to set off a firework at the Central Train Station and stab those fleeing.
Helmut Graf
Gruesome details to come to light on the revealed attack plans of a 16-year-old in Vienna. The young man canceled the plan shortly before the crime.
by Rene Findenig
Over the weekend, a frightful report caused a stir. The Office for Protection of the Constitution had been investigating a 16-year-old Islamist (originally, there was talk of a 17-year-old), who in a chatgroup, reportedly expressed concrete attack plans in Vienna. According to the Interior Ministry, the young Austrian also shared a picture of himself that showed him in relevant clothing with a combat knife in his hand, while, with the other hand, he is giving the ISIS sign. He himself described himself as a strict Islamic believer and also loudly confessed the attack plans in his interrogation.
Now the gruesome details are becoming known-and just how narrowly the federal capital escaped an attack. As The Standard reports, the 16-year-old had planned to set off a firework at the Vienna Central Train Station, and then stab the fleeing people with a knife. Shocking. The 16-year-old actually stood in the Vienna Central Train Station with a knife "with a longer blade" and a firework but broke off his plan in the last seconds. Instead, the young man went to a mosque and spent the night there.
Vienna attacker as role model
Further bizarre details of the case. The combat knife was reportedly acquired by the 16-year-old just shortly before his visit to the Central Train Station, he announced the act in a chat group, that the Austrian with Turkish roots accepted he would die in the act, and that the Vienna attacker of November 2, 2020, who shot four people in the federal capital and injured several, was described to the authorities as a great role model by the young man. The young man was radicalized over the Intenet, as The Standard reported with reference to security authorities.
The young man also reportedly named the attackers of Paris and Berlin as role models. Side detail. The young man had chosen September 11 as the day of the aborted attack-on September 2021 (sic), there were 2,996* victims killed in the terror attack in the USA. The young man was arrested last Tuesday on the street just one day after the aborted attack, The knife was reportedly seized from him. On Thursday pre-trial detention was imposed. Investigations in the case continue.
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Translator's note: The above article erroneously gives the year of the 9-11 attacks as 2021. It was 2001. It also includes the 19 hijackers in the death toll of victims. The number of actual victims was 2,977.
* Here is an English-subtitled version of the video in the Heute (Austria) article. Translation by Fousesquawk. (Hat tip Gates of Vienna and Vlad Tepes for subtitling.)
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