The unthinkable is confirmed: the Villach Knife-Amoclauf was an attack with an Islamic background. The “Kroon” followed the few months in which the 23-year-old perpetrator Ahmad G. would have been radicalized on the internet, mainly via Tikok.
Ahmad G. started random passers -by – by Saturday shortly after 4 p.m. in the pulsating Villach City center – with a spring knife with a knife ten centimeters long.
This weapon, which he had previously bought with around 150 euros, does terrible wounds at victims; If vital organs or even arteries, such as in the front, are affected, even fast medical emergency aid can no longer coordinate.
Three victims in the Intensive Care treatment
Just like the only 14 -year -old student Christoph (*name changed by the editor), for those who were late. Another three victims are currently being treated in Intensive Care, two are probably over the mountain. The injured are two 15-year-olds and people aged 28, 32 and 36; There are four Austrian civilians and a Turkish.
In the Ahmad G. apartment, the police also found various flags of the Islamic State and references to “online radicalization”. Just like “Swift Assassins” Beran A., he should have followed Islamist hate preachers.
Karner argues for “incidental masson controls”
How can you prevent such developments in the future? “By unless mass reviews”, such as the Minister of the Interior Gerhard Karner on Sunday formulated in Villach. Because Ahmad G., who had come to Austria at the end of 2020, has not yet noticed that he had an upright asylum status until July 17, 2028. No criminal registers, not on the extremist danger list and also not on the radar of international news services.
Former neighbors know, however, that the 23-year-old had often made “difficulties”, went to Germany in between and had even been in custody for some time.
Incidentally, the measures that are now enthusiastic by the Minister of the Interior and only by the law must first of all influence asylum people with the background of Syrian and Afghan background. Until now, the foreign police may only control asylum areas and not private accommodation. That should change quickly.
No scruples and no regret
Incidentally, the behavior of the terrorist suspect in the arrest is particularly annoying for the shocked population and the authorities. According to the police director of Carinthia, Michaela Kohlweis, the 23-year-old apparently accepted his death; Maybe I want to be shot. And laughed when he looked into the police weapon of the police officer.
In any case, the shock is deep in Villach; In the city, which is actually a carnival stronghold at this time of the year, all events, in particular the guild meetings, were canceled, a funeral march will follow. Carnival flags made way for the funeral flower, people put flowers on the scene, cannot believe what happened. Like a friend of the 14-year-old killed: “We wanted to meet each other today,” she sobrs. Not the only tears in these difficult hours.
Source: Krone
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