Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) has called for consequences after the incident in Munich in which an 18-year-old exchanged fire with police and was killed. Karner congratulated the Munich authorities on their “successful and very professional intervention”.
The fact that there was no catastrophe in Munich was due to police intervention, Karner said at a press event in Vienna on Thursday: “The decisive factor was the right tactics and the right equipment.”
Karner: “Stop making excuses”
Regarding the debate over the courier services, the Interior Minister said that the Munich case showed “how important and necessary it is that the Austrian authorities finally get modern investigative methods”: “There must be an end to the trivialization and excuses”
The 18-year-old Austrian with Bosnian roots was apparently, like so many young fanatics, radicalized online. In 2023, the boy was already under investigation for coercion and bodily harm. The Salzburger’s mobile phone was also examined.
Because of the material found at the time, state security was alerted. The case was reported to the Salzburg Public Prosecutor’s Office, but the procedure was later “not continued”, as Karner said. He himself spoke several times on the phone with the German Minister of the Interior and the Bavarian Minister of the Interior on Thursday.
“Radicalized individual perpetrator”
At the moment everything points “to a radicalized individual perpetrator,” the minister said. The weapon was an older long gun of category C, a heavy gun.
The 18-year-old opened fire at the Nazi Documentation Center in Munich on Thursday before being shot dead by police.
Source: Krone
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