The two teenage suspects deny any serious plans to attack Vienna’s rainbow parade this weekend (see video of the parade above). They have only admitted to participating in chats, a spokesperson for the St. Pölten public prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday.
The public prosecutor has now filed a complaint against the release of a 20-year-old from prison. There should be “no urgent suspicion” against him, the other two suspects (aged 14 and 17) are still in custody. Now it is up to the Vienna Higher Regional Court.
As reported, the three suspected Islamists are under investigation as they belong to a terrorist and criminal organization. The trio were arrested around noon on Saturday, about an hour before the parade started. On Sunday, two suspects were taken into custody and the 20-year-old brother of the 17-year-old was released. The two older suspects live in St. Pölten, the 14-year-old lives in Vienna.
Parents not radical Islamist or strongly religious
All three suspects grew up in orderly family circumstances. Her parents are said to be neither strongly religious nor radically Islamist. The young people have probably radicalized themselves online and not in mosques. As it has now become known, they did not pursue a regulated, structured everyday life.
ÖVP wants safety shutdown
Meanwhile, the People’s Party of St. Pölten called for a summit with security authorities, integration experts and all city council groups. Those responsible have looked the other way long enough. “The capital of the state is always in the picture here. We therefore urgently need to talk in St. Pölten about how we can prevent religious and social radicalization of young people,” said ÖVP club president Florian Krumböck.
He referred to the now discovered attack plans, the terrorist attack in November 2020 in Vienna and the house searches in 2017 after the explosion of a pizzeria in Hollabrunn.
Source: Krone
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