According to their own statements, Austria’s constitutional protectors have prevented a planned Islamist attack on Vienna’s Westbahnhof train station.
The suspect is a 14-year-old Austrian who was arrested on February 10, according to the Ministry of the Interior.
According to the ministry, the teenager’s plans were very concrete. During a house search, sketches of attacks with knives and machetes on a train station and on police officers were found. Instructions for the production of explosive material to be used as a detonator for a bomb were also seized. Aluminum pipes and knives were also discovered during the house search.
The suspect refused to make a statement, according to the Ministry of the Interior. The constitution protection authority DSN had become aware of him after he had allegedly distributed Islamist content on the video platform Tiktok. On Saturday, a 23-year-old Syrian attacked people with a knife in the Austrian town of Villach, killing a teenager and injuring several people. Investigators also assume an Islamist background in this case.
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