The terrorist act in Munich was shocking: according to the police, there were no concrete signs of radicalization of the perpetrator (18). Experts now warn: “Austria has a problem!”
They all have one thing in common. A sheltered home, an intact family life, a mobile phone and a nursery. And that is exactly where they radicalize: between the brown teddy bear in the corner and the football on the carpet. Not in mosques, not at secret meetings.
Terror in Munich
“The fact is that we are at the beginning of a new wave of jihadist terrorism,” said extremism researcher Daniela Pisoiu on Thursday morning after the terror in Munich, in which the suspected murderer was felled by numerous shots from police weapons after being shot at random by officers in front of the Nazi Documentation Center.
The new wave can now be described as ‘ITT’: experts speak of ‘Islamic teenage terror’.
Guido Steinberg, the German researcher on Islamism, says clearly: “Jihadist radicalization in Austria has continued unabated. Individual young people can be mobilized simply by consuming IS propaganda.”
You don’t need human networks (only allies and social media support) – and for attacks you need simple equipment, little logistics, little planning, no effort and easily available weapons. So everything is very simple, since the hands of the domestic executive are still legally tied when it comes to monitoring courier services.
He was highly intelligent and extremely internet savvy
We still remember that they planned it all from their childhood bedroom: blowing up Vienna’s main train station (it was a 16-year-old), killing a politician (14 years old), blowing up thousands of young people who were celebrating at the concert of American superstar Taylor Swift in The federal capital – Beran A. is 19 and made the plans for his so-called heroic act in the beautiful house of mom and dad in Ternitz (Lower Austria).
This also applies to Emrah I. The 18-year-old from Salzburg with Bosnian roots comes from a good family. He specialized in electrical engineering at the HTL together with his brother (16). dropped out” in January of this year. Because some problems are said to have arisen during the pandemic, Emrah I. became a loner, liked to pray and got into fights with classmates. As reported, there was an attack on school in February 2023, some statements from classmates, investigations by state security officials and a house search.
But that did not reveal any ‘real’ radicalization. The 19-year-old played “Roblox” on his laptop. He made his own avatars (game characters), decorated them with (IS) Al-Nusra flags and held virtual shooting exercises (on people).
Attacker paid 400 euros for gun
On Wednesday evening, despite the gun ban, he bought a real weapon from a private collector in Flachgau. He paid 400 euros for the old Swiss military rifle, including a bayonet and 50 cartridges, and drove to Munich in Mami’s car on Monday morning instead of going to his internship at a mechanical engineering company, which he had started last Monday.
Employer raised the alarm
Emrah I’s employer raised the alarm when he failed to show up on day 4. At a time when he was already shooting at police officers in Germany with his World War II repeater.
What drove the Salzburger to the mad act will probably remain his well-kept nursery secret. When the parents’ house was searched after the crime, nothing was found: no material glorifying ISIS. And you can’t hope for the evaluation of Emrah Is Handy. It was completely destroyed when the murderer died in a hail of bullets.
Source: Krone
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