At the beginning of this year, a convicted IS terrorist worked as a security guard on the vaccination and testing street at the Austria Center Vienna (ACV). The 21-year-old was arrested there on January 6 – he is said to have forced a colleague to do so the night before. The man has been incarcerated ever since. On Wednesday he had to answer for rape at the Vienna court, where his criminal record was published.
How the 21-year-old managed to land a job with the security service on the federal capital’s largest vaccination and testing street, as a legally convicted ex-IS terrorist with three other relevant criminal records, seemed worthy of questioning, not only for the prosecutor.
His past life clearly shouldn’t have been in the company he was employed by – it was neither the Austria Center Vienna nor the Arbeiter Samariter Bund Wien (ASBW) as vaccination and testing road manager, as research by the APA showed – obviously not. adequately controlled.
man was already convicted
What is certain is that in June 2017 the man was sentenced in Vienna to two and a half years in prison, of which ten months were unconditional, for membership of a terrorist organization and criminal organization. A not inconsiderable sentence for a young person – he was 17 at the time. According to the verdict, he had joined the radical Islamist terrorist militia “Islamic State” (IS) at the end of May 2016 and wanted to undergo combat training in a terrorist camp in Syria.
However, he was arrested by the Turkish authorities in the southern Anatolian border town of Gaziantep, prevented from continuing his journey and sent back to Austria. Back in Vienna in July 2016, he approached 11- and 12-year-old boys in a park and tried to recruit them for IS.
Also noticeable after imprisonment
After serving his unconditional part of the sentence, the young man no longer stood out for committing terrorist crimes. However, he continued to commit crimes, most recently being convicted of intentionally inflicting serious bodily harm.
Allegedly raped colleague
On January 5, while working as a security guard at the Austria Center, he met an employee on Impfstrasse with whom he made an appointment for an after-work meeting. They met in the city, went to a fast food restaurant for something to eat and then, according to the charges, went to a hotel at his insistence. As the prosecution explained, the woman would have been very intimidated by the tall, strong and dominant man at the time.
So she went to bed and pretended to sleep while he took a shower. When he came back from the bathroom, he told her to undress, count to ten, and rape her repeatedly despite crying and begging her to stop.
Suspect: ‘She went with me’
The suspect, who was brought into the courtroom by a heavily armed special task force of the prison guard because of his terrorist past, denied this. He got on very well with the woman: “She went with me, I didn’t ask her at all.” While she was watching TV in bed together in the hotel, she laid her head on his chest, stroked him and asked if he would like to sleep with her. He said yes: “I am a man. When she said I didn’t want any more, I I immediately stopped.”
Samaritans: “Terrible Incident”
Both the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) and the Arbeiter Samariter Bund Wien (ASBW) commented that a convicted IS terrorist had worked as a security guard at Vienna’s largest testing and vaccination line. “In the course of the close and good cooperation with the Austria Center Vienna, we immediately became aware of this terrible incident at the beginning of this year. The security company in question is a well-known company and has assured us that all employees deployed at the ACV are police are being checked. We are shocked by what has happened. We want to extend our condolences to the victim and hope for a speedy legal clarification,” the Samaritan Association said.
ACV requires a declaration of good conduct
The ACV emphasized to the APA that the sexual abuse of an employee of a vaccination line took place outside of work. The employee entrusted a supervisor the next day, “at which point the Austria Center Vienna immediately informed the police because of the seriousness of the allegations,” it said in a detailed statement. He is said to have interrogated both persons separately, after which the suspect was taken to the police for further questioning.
The employee is still employed by the Austria Center Vienna. The suspect was employed by a security company on behalf of the Arbeiter Samaritan Bund. According to the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund, their security company has contractually committed to supply only personnel for the vaccination and testing lines who can provide impeccable proof of good conduct.
Source: Krone
I am Ida Scott, a journalist and content author with a passion for uncovering the truth. I have been writing professionally for Today Times Live since 2020 and specialize in political news. My career began when I was just 17; I had already developed a knack for research and an eye for detail which made me stand out from my peers.
