New details about the foiled knife attack plan at the central station: After a chance meeting, the 16-year-old Islamist took the Viennese attacker as a ‘role model’.
The unplanned meeting between the two IS fanatics took place in Vienna’s Millennium City at the end of 2019, which made headlines partly thanks to Islamic moral watchdogs. The later Viennese attacker was serving a 22-month prison sentence at the time. wanted to join Syria because of joining the Islamic State – was released.
The brief encounter, including a description of the arrest and time behind bars, left a lasting impression on the then 13-year-old. The Viennese attacker was his ‘terrorist role model’; he also planned to obtain a firearm, as he described to state security officials in later interrogations: “I wanted to carry out the attack in exactly the same way.”
Field knife instead of pistol
But because he could not get a pistol for 500 euros in a gun shop this fall due to his youth and because he did not have a weapons passport, he bought a field knife with a blade of 16.5 centimeters in a store for twenty euros. After setting off a firework as a distraction (he had forgotten the fireworks in the apartment), he planned to kill people at random – the IS teen wanted to “stab at least three to four victims in the neck” – at the central station from Vienna. then allows himself to be shot by police officers ‘to go to paradise as a martyr’.
As reported, the 16-year-old with Turkish roots, registered with the AMS, lost courage at the last minute. After a tip from a foreign intelligence service, the ‘terrorist milk boy’ was eventually arrested. Shortly before the planned attack, he had posted a cell phone selfie on a Telegram channel with his index finger raised as an IS identifier and the prophet’s knife and signet ring in the other hand…
Source: Krone
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