He sympathised with the Islamic State and the Nazi regime and attacked judicial guards several times. The trial of a 26-year-old Chechen begins today. The eXXpress has summarised the chronicles of an example of failed integration.
In Krems, a 26-year-old Chechen is standing trial before the regional court today. He is charged with attempted murder, criminal offences, resisting arrest, attempted grievous bodily harm, dangerous threats and damage to property. He is also alleged to have travelled to Syria and to have fought there for the radical Islamic terrorist militia “Islamic State”. The Chechen’s life story is an exemplary example of failed integration.
At the age of six, the boy came to Austria with his family from the Russian Federation of Chechnya. He attended school in Graz, but completed it without graduating. The young man moved to Vienna, where he began to sympathise with the Islamic State (IS). Three relevant convictions would “clearly show the character of this person”, the prosecutor said. Since 2015, the accused has already been in prisons “because he did not stop committing criminal acts even in custody. We have an IS sympathiser sitting there, a person who sympathises with the Nazi regime and who makes the work of the judicial guard more difficult every day.”
According to his statements, the inmate had “gone cold turkey” after using drugs in custody and was angry because he wanted to talk to his brother, who was also in custody. When the accused was to be transferred to another cell on December 3, 2020, he allegedly stabbed twice with a cutlery knife, the tip of which was sharpened, in the direction of the neck of a prison guard. The uniformed officer remained unharmed. The inmate told on Monday that he had sharpened the cutlery knife with sandpaper from a fellow inmate in the front because he wanted to use it as a screwdriver to connect his TV to boxes. “My aim was not to kill an officer”, but he had wanted to run out of the cell, the accused explained.
The accused is also accused of resistance to authority, attempted grievous bodily harm, dangerous threat and damage to property. On November 28, 2020, i.e. shortly before the knife attack, the man allegedly punched an employee through the dining hatch, but missed him. The accused had aimed his fist at his cheekbone, but he was only grazed, the officer reported. Furthermore, he announced a “surprise” to the staff when the cell door would open when he was not allowed to see his brother at night. The officers took the statements seriously and the Chechen was transferred to the Graz-Karlau prison.
There, the prisoner allegedly made a doll holding a machine gun and the term “Jihad” out of bed covers and placed it on the floor of his detention room. The accused saw his action as a “provocation” to the justice system. He was accused of travelling to Syria to fight for the IS, but was acquitted of this charge. Nevertheless, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution considers him a “terrorist”, the defendant said. The verdict is expected on June 21.
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