Vienna attack: arrests made after four killed in 'Islamist terror' shooting

[brooklynite]

Source: The Guardian

Austrian police have made several arrests at addresses linked to an Islamic State sympathiser who killed at least four people in a terrorist shooting and stabbing attack in Vienna on Monday night.

Two men and two women died of their injuries after the attack in the centre of the Austrian capital, which took place hours before a coronavirus lockdown started.

The suspect, who was shot dead by police nine minutes into the attack, was a 20-year-old man of North Macedonian origin convicted last year for membership of Isis after being arrested on his way to Syria to join the group, officials said. The man, who also possessed an Austrian passport, was released early from a 22-month prison sentence in December.

His victims were “an elderly man an elderly woman, a young male passerby and a waitress”, according to Austria’s chancellor, Sebastian Kurz. He praised a police officer shot in the attack and who is in a critical but stable condition as brave.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/03/vienna-terror-attack-isis-sympathiser-blamed-for-shooting-that-left-dead

[nycbos]

1. Released early from a 22-month prison sentence in December?

WTF


It's common sense that you never get a terrorist an early release.

And I hope we give the same level of attention to this as if a white supremacist did it.

[samsingh]

2. very often it seems that radicalized youth are released to the public

[maxsolomon]

3. European nations are caught in a double-bind here.

This asshole was imprisoned for TRYING to join ISIL. Is 22 months going to rehabilitate him, or radicalize him further?

Do you expel him back to his N. Macedonian shithole? He holds an Austrian Passport.

Do you show him mercy, as they apparently did, in hopes that lessens his resentments and feelings of persecution?

Things had gotten pretty quiet in terms of terror attacks in Europe. This was probably set off by the French reaction to the teacher beheading.

If this 20 year old wants Nationalist and Anti-Immigrant movements in Europe to gain more power, he did a great job.