Horrifying scenes on Friday evening in Vienna’s Floridsdorf district: a young man runs through the skate park holding a gun, shouting ‘Allahu Akbar!’ – and fires several times. The police arrive with a large contingent, but there is no trace of the perpetrator. The police are now investigating.
A threatening pursuit took place at around 9.00 pm in the area of Bodenstedtgasse. Several youths ran through the skate park there, one of them carried a gun, shouted ‘Allahu Akbar!’ loudly – and fired several shots. Eyewitnesses immediately called the police. They were on the scene within a few minutes with several patrols and the special police unit WEGA and secured the area around the Floridsdorf railway station – but the perpetrators were able to escape.
The incident was captured on video. The footage clearly shows one of the young men firing several times in different directions – accompanied by religious shouts. The scenes appear to be from a war zone – except that they took place in the centre of Vienna.
The footage was published by Heute. A reader had filmed the events from his flat – because ‘strange scenes’ are often observed in the neighbourhood, as he explained.
Schüsse und Schreie im Skaterpark Floridsdorf: Polizei-Großeinsatz, Täter flüchtig 🚔 https://t.co/mAAKJycxDM
— heute.at (@Heute_at) May 31, 2025
Forensics started investigating the crime scene that very night. A total of seven shell casings from a blank firing pistol were recovered. Fortunately, no one was injured and no damage to property was found. Nevertheless, the investigation was immediately handed over to the State Office for State Security and Counter-Extremism (LSE).
According to police spokesman Markus Dittrich, the manhunt for the suspects is in full swing.