On the anniversary of the terrorist attack in Vienna on November 2, 2020, government and city leaders commemorated the victims.
Chancellor Karl Nehammer, Minister of the Interior Gerhard Karner (both ÖVP) and Mayor of Vienna Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) laid two wreaths, candles and flowers on the Desider-Friedmann-Platz in the city center.
In the attack four years ago, an IS sympathizer killed four people and injured more than 20, some seriously.
“Overcoming hatred through solidarity”
“May your loss motivate us to protect freedom, preserve our values and overcome hatred through solidarity,” Nehammer said in a broadcast. “In memory of the four victims, we renew our pledge to stand up as a defensive democracy to protect our fellow citizens – for an Austria and a world without any form of terror.”
Thousands of emergency services were deployed in 2020
However, the night of November 2 also showed “that we are a strong and courageous society taking decisive action against terrorism,” Karner said, recalling the efforts of emergency services, volunteers and police. More than 2,500 civil servants from Vienna, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Burgenland and Styria were on duty at the time, and more than 1,000 of them worked in their spare time.
“Let us not allow terrorism to bring us to our knees
“Ludwig emphasized the importance of the event for the city’s residents: “Most Viennese remember exactly where they were that evening four years ago,” he stated. But Vienna ‘will not allow itself to be brought to its knees by terrorism.’ Remembrance Day is a reminder to “always value what we have in common over what divides us,” the mayor said.
Source: Krone
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