The identity of the author of the shooting on Monday, November 2, 2020 in Vienna is now known.
He is Kurtin S., a 20 -year -old man of Albanian origin born and raised in Vienna. Known to intelligence services, he was one of the 90 Austrian Islamists who wanted to go to Syria, reports the editor -in -chief of the weekly Falrian Klenk on Twitter.
Six places in the Austrian capital Vienna were targeted, on the evening of Monday, October 2, by a coordinated attack.
On his Twitter account, the Austrian chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, condemned a “repugnant terrorist attack”. “We will never be intimidated by terrorism and will resolutely fight against these attacks by all means,” he said.
For his part, the Austrian Minister of the Interior, Karl Nehammer, said on Tuesday at a press conference that the striker that the police had shot was a sympathizer of the terrorist organization Daesh.