The judiciary is acting as if this were a trivial incident: but it wasn’t a harmless perpetrator who escaped the control of Minister Alma Zadic (Greens), but a serious criminal Chechen (35) – the dangerous Islamist was imprisoned for ten years in the high-security prison in Krems-Stein (photo) after a money transporter robbery.
The Chechen’s escape is a scandal in itself. The prisoner was escorted out of the prison for an X-ray due to knee problems. Since then, he has disappeared completely. He simply marched out of the doctor’s surgery – and disappeared. The fact that the justice system has not yet launched a comprehensive Austria-wide manhunt with photos of the perpetrator can certainly be seen as a security scandal.
The population should be urgently warned about the escaped prisoner, who is considered to be extremely dangerous: it is no coincidence that he is in Krems-Stein, where Austria’s serious criminals such as the Amstetten incest father Josef F. are held. The Chechen is serving his sentence for aggravated armed robbery, grievous bodily harm, resisting public authority and illegal possession of weapons.
Together with two accomplices, he robbed a money transporter in Wels on the 12th of August 2019. The trio intercepted two cash messengers coming out of a bank branch with suitcases in the morning in a car park. They beat one of the cash carriers with a pistol and also injured her colleague. But when they failed to break into the cash boxes, they fled.
On the way, they changed their getaway vehicle and set fire to the first one. They finally crashed the second one and were caught. In February 2020, two Chechens stood trial for the robbery; the third accomplice was unknown until then.
In the course of the investigation, it emerged that the Chechen, who is now on the run, was not an unknown person who must have been on the radar of state security at least some of the time. He had been targeted in Tyrol as a radical Islamist who had proudly presented himself on videos as a supporter of the Islamic State (IS) and posed in front of a relevant Salafist flag.
The fact that 200 police officers with search dogs, a helicopter crew and drone pilots searched for him for hours after his escape shows just how dangerous the Chechen is considered to be. The domestic intelligence service was also involved. The high-risk prisoner used to be a martial artist and active as a “cage fighter”.
Geldtransporter-Überfall, Terror: Dieser Islamist ist weiter in Freiheit! | Exxpress