After the Viennese police announced in June that an attack on the Rainbow Parade was planned by three young men, there are now the first concrete clues about the case: one of the suspected perpetrators is said to have communicated an attack on a ‘gay parade’. have in a chat.
An Islamist group is said to have chosen the major event in June this year as an attack target. The suspects are three men aged 15, 18 and 20.
Researchers likely have an important clue
However, decisive evidence for the planned attack is still lacking. All suspects were released within a very short time. As a joint study by ‘Puls 24’, ‘Standard’ and the APA has shown, the researchers have now probably taken an important step forward in the near future. At least that is what a state security document from the investigation file suggests. She asks the responsible public prosecutor’s office in St. Pölten to submit two explosive requests for legal aid.
Suspect active in Telegram group
The three suspects – a pair of brothers from St. Pölten with Bosnian roots and a high school student from Vienna with Chechen roots – are said to have been active in a relevant Telegram group. A well-known jihadist from Eastern Europe may have been present there, who has now been arrested in his home country. And the chat history on his seized mobile phone is now intended as evidence that terrorist plans were actually made around the Vienna Rainbow Parade.
Wanted to run over participant with car
The chat history states that one of the brothers communicated with the foreign jihadist about an attack in Vienna, specifically during a “gay parade”, and said he wanted to run over the participants there with a car and attack them with knives.
The younger brother is also said to have announced in the chat group that he would receive a knife and an AK-47 for his alleged attack plans. The older man is said to have at least “mentally supported” him.
Real radicalization among young people observed
A report from the deradicalization agency ‘Derad’ in mid-October stated that the brothers ‘tried to do everything right’. In the case of the younger of the two, “real radicalization in the sense of deeply held extremist views or behavior patterns could not be identified based on previous conversations.”
But investigators also found something on the mobile phone of the young man, who was only 14 at the time of the Vienna Pride parade, indicating that the young man had been radicalized. He is said to have created and edited propaganda materials promoting terrorism, to have used a chat group to raise money for arms purchases for the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP), and to have stated that he was quick to possibly wanted to join the ISKP in Afghanistan. as he came of age.
Men free again
The alleged attack plans first became known the day after the Pride parade, when the Directorate for State Security and Intelligence (DSN) informed the public in a hastily convened press conference that they had foiled an attack and conducted several searches of the suspects. The DSN was informed of the three by a foreign partner service. The researchers found some terrorist propaganda in the chats known so far, but there was no connection with ‘Pride’. The three young men are being investigated as terrorist groups and criminal organizations in connection with the alleged attack plans. The 14-year-old is also suspected of giving instructions for the commission of a terrorist crime. All three suspects have now been released.
Source: Krone
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