Nine men and a 19-year-old convert — a Christian from Upper Austria who had converted to Islam — applauded murder videos, also spoke of attacks and converted the living room into an IS prayer room. Now the police stepped in and took out the terror cell, which was planning more than just praying.
The 19-year-old Upper Austrian, who converted to Islam and had already been convicted of terrorism, was more radical than the nine young men who set up an Islamic terror cell in the Linz area with her. The Directorate of State Security and Intelligence Service (DSN) announced this on Tuesday morning after the 15 to 23-year-olds had been observed for three months.
A terrorist group had been set up in the Linz-Land district. The group had promoted the terrorist organizations ‘Islamic State’ and ‘Emirat Caucasus’, which emerged from the Chechen wars, and dreamed of establishing an Islamic state in our country.
Turning away from the “normal” mosque
The young people were tracked down when they turned their backs on their mosques – because the imams there did not preach true Islam from their point of view and were therefore not radical enough. That is why the group was so inhomogeneous in terms of nationality: the suspects come from Austria, Russia, Croatia, Turkey, Iraq or are stateless: “Radicalization was what they had in common.”
“Kill kuffar” was the plan
When the group, which glorified the murder videos distributed by ‘Islamic State’, also spoke of wanting to kill ‘kuffar’, that is, infidels, the police struck. During house searches, propaganda material, mobile telephones, computers and data carriers were found, the analysis of which is still ongoing. A living room was converted into a prayer room, where the IS flag was supposed to hang.
One of the suspects is in custody
Only one of the suspects was taken into custody: an 18-year-old who was seen by the judiciary in Linz as at risk of escaping and committing a crime. This was confirmed by Ulrike Breiteneder, spokeswoman for the Linz public prosecutor’s office. The group also put a Lower Austrian in the act: a 19-year-old had not been legally convicted of spray-painting IS graffiti in St. Pölten.
“Fundamentalist Attitudes”
From the office of Interior Minister Gerhard Karner it says: “The interrogations show that the suspects have a fundamentally Islamic versus terrorist attitude.” police officers from Linz-Land and the Cobra are working on this case.
Soon enough – hopefully
Most researchers take second place in clarifying why it crashed. And we are all amazed that killers went unnoticed in our midst.
This time, the researchers were faster, had the right tip and didn’t give up. Because they know that our – on the surface – quiet corner of the world is inhabited by human time bombs. You don’t need a crazy imam in the mosque for radicalization; there are plenty of seducers on the internet.
Now it is to be hoped that the released terrorist teens will be kept under close scrutiny – they are certainly not yet deradicalised.
Source: Krone
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