The suspected supporter of the terrorist militia ‘Islamic State’ (IS), who escaped from a Vienna hospital last Friday and was arrested the next day by the Directorate of State Security and Intelligence (DSN) and has been in custody since then, is probably from all people radicalized during his last prison sentence and worked for IS.
The Public Prosecution Service in Wiener Neustadt is investigating 19-year-old Mahdy C., who escaped last week during a hospital stay, on suspicion of terrorism and criminal association. The alleged period of the crime refers to the time when the Austrian with Tunisian roots was in a… Prison (JA) served a prison sentence for theft and bodily harm.
Sympathy with IS
Authority spokesman Erich Habitzl admitted this on Friday afternoon. Habitzl did not want to answer further questions, such as whether the 19-year-old was only illegally in possession of a mobile phone and used it in relevant chat groups, or whether he also wanted to recruit fellow prisoners for IS. The spokesperson asked for your understanding that no information could be provided about this “for tactical reasons”.
The 19-year-old was in prison until January 2024. After serving his sentence, he was immediately taken into custody as a result of ongoing investigations into suspected terrorism. “He sympathized with the Islamic State (IS) and wanted to join it,” the DSN said last weekend about the suspected situation.
Just a prison guard
Despite this, a single prison guard apparently escorted the 19-year-old to an examination appointment at the Hospital of the Brothers of Mercy in Vienna-Leopoldstadt, where the U prisoner managed to escape. In this context, an investigation is being conducted into possible misconduct by the officer accompanying him. The DSN considers it conceivable that there may have been escape rescue workers. “Possible involvement of flight aids in the escape cannot yet be ruled out and is currently being investigated,” the report recently said. Disciplinary proceedings are underway against the prison guard who was attacked and injured by Mahdy C.
Source: Krone
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