Desperate parents as witnesses
The preacher and two members of an association in Linz, which, according to the prosecutor, “was a base and location of the Islamic State”, are said to have recruited young Muslims for the fight with IS. Some of them have therefore already been legally convicted. Desperate parents of such godly warriors testified as witnesses. The defendants are also said to have intended to replace democracy in Austria with a radical Islamist, totalitarian state of God. “It is forbidden in Austria to sow this hatred,” explains the public prosecutor, who demanded long prison terms. The accused and their defense lawyers denied the allegations to the very end.