Detained is a Syrian asylum applicant with valid residence permission and without criminal record; The Interior Minister, Gerhard Karner, classified what happened as an “Islamist tacho ‘
One 14 -year -old died and five others were injured on Saturday (15) in a knife attack in the south of the south, police said he arrested a 23 -year -old Syrian asylum. “A man randomly attacked passers -by with a knife” in the city of Villach, he told AFP Rainer Dionisio, police spokesman. “A victim, a 14 -year -old boy, died,” he added. The number of injured rose from four to five, two of which are in serious condition, the spokesman said. The oldest victim is 36 years old. The attack occurred shortly before 4 pm locations in the city center in Caríntia province.
A food delivery saw what was happening and ran over the perpetrator with his vehicle, which was slightly injured and could be arrested “right after the attack,” said Dionisio. According to him, the detained man is a Syrian asylum applicant with valid residence permission and without criminal record, according to preliminary information. Dionisio explained that they could not even specify the reason for the attack, but they were checking testimonies that the striker shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is the greatest). Caríntia’s governor, social democrat Peter Kaiser, asked for the “hardest consequences” for this “incredible atrocity.”
The far-right leader Herbert Kickl, whose party won the national elections held in September for the first time in history, was “horrified” by the attack, qualifying it as a “system error.” “We need to take drastic measures against the asylum,” he said in a statement. Austria welcomes almost 100,000 Syrian refugees.
Interior Minister Gerhard Karner classified, on Sunday (16), the stabbing as an “Islamist attack.” “It is an Islamist attack that has connections with the IS [grupo jihadista Estado Islâmico]”The minister said in Villach. This incident occurred only two days after one in Germany.
*With information from AFP
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