Last week, a 16-year-old was arrested in Upper Austria for terrorist plans. He is currently in custody.
Once again, a possible Islamist attack in Austria was prevented. At a press conference at the Ministry of the Interior on Monday, Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) and DSN director and project manager Omar Haijawi-Pirchner reported on a 16-year-old from Steyr who is said to have had concrete terrorist plans for a synagogue in Vienna. Arrest in the children’s room. Several house searches followed. On Thursday, the young person was arrested in his own children’s room. Concrete preparations According to the Interior Ministry, the 16-year-old with Turkish roots had announced his plans in advance in chats on Telegram. Concrete preparations had been in place since October 2023. Accordingly, he wanted to buy weapons in order to then carry out an attack in a synagogue in Vienna. He had already organized financial resources for this.Brutal IS videos Numerous brutal IS videos were found when his cell phone was confiscated. The 16-year-old was transferred to the Linz prison. Interrogations are expected to take place in the coming days. Further investigations are underway, it was said. According to Karner, investigations in this area are increasingly focusing on young boys who are becoming radicalized. “Radicalized individual perpetrators” “Radicalized individual perpetrators continue to play a central role. Young people in particular become radicalized quickly. Arrangements for terrorist attacks are made in virtual rooms,” emphasized the DSN boss. In the future, so-called high-risk individuals who pose a particular danger to the state will be a matter for the states and will remain in close consultation with the headquarters in Vienna.
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