The confiscated mobile phones are piled up at the detectives’ table. What happens to the three young Lower Austrians who have come into the sights of state security through the dissemination of IS propaganda will depend on their content. All three are currently free.
“It is still up in the air what we will find”, the investigators can currently only speculate about who they have caught in the net with the three young Lower Austrians who advertised themselves on the Internet as major “IS fighters”. At the moment they can “only” be accused of spreading Islamist propaganda via messages. “There is currently no suspicion of an attack”, it is said. That is why the 19-year-old from St. Pölten and the two boys (16, 17) from the Tulln district are currently still at large – the former are even on leave in Chechnya. Will it even be returned voluntarily? This is currently assumed. She is well rooted here.
Austrians who converted to Islam
It is still unclear whether the trio knows each other. The data from the mobile phones should also answer this question. No connection is currently assumed. What is clear, however, is that both boys are native Austrians who recently converted to Islam. Only the interviews will reveal why. But first, countless gigabytes of data have to be sorted: some people have more than one mobile phone. “It can take a month to get through it,” say investigators. Only then will it be the lawyers’ turn.
The two youngsters face a prison sentence of up to five years on suspicion of membership of a terrorist or criminal organization, and the woman from St. Pöltner faces a prison sentence of up to ten years because of her age. The boys were also banned from carrying weapons. “Due to the risk assessment,” said a spokesman for the state police.
Lower Austria is once again the focus of research
After the foiled attack plans on the Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna, Lower Austria is once again the focus of the investigators’ attention with the arrest of the suspected mastermind from Ternitz. Between Enns and Leitha alone, reports are now sent to the public prosecutor’s office around 60 times a year – from simple messages to specific danger situations. The trend is rising!
It is no wonder that these propaganda cases become a political football. Florian Krumböck, the chairman of the ÖVP club of St. Pölten, criticizes the fact that the state capital is once again the focus of investigations against religious extremists. “It is time to admit that St. Pölten has an integration problem,” is how he sees the shortcomings of the red city government. “Unfortunately, an integration summit was rejected at the time,” complains Krumböck.
‘Disgusting ideologies’ and ‘swamps’
The SPÖ, in turn, continues to advocate for a law that bans radical Islamism. “It cannot be that radical Islamists take action online against ‘infidels’ and women’s rights. That is why the promotion of this disgusting ideology must be banned,” said SPÖ-NÖ security spokeswoman Kathrin Schindele.
“This swamp must be drained immediately,” demands FPÖ state representative Udo Landbauer. “We must act against it with all our might and also combat the causes: an immediate end to asylum policy, an end to false tolerance and harsh deportations,” the freedom leader said.
Source: Krone
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