Twelve graffiti with IS slogans were found in St. Pölten, now the police have caught the graffiti artist. He is a North Macedonian (19) with contacts to a group that is said to have plotted terrorist attacks in Vienna and St. Pölten.
Two eyewitnesses made the police trace the initially unknown person who had sprayed twelve graffiti with clear messages of the terrorist organisation “Islamic State” in the area of the main railway station of St. Pölten on March 15 – eXXpress reported. With the support of the Rapid Response Forces (SRK), the police arrested an unemployed Macedonian (19). He is accused of supporting a terrorist organisation and damaging property.
More explosive, however, is that the case has been taken over by the Directorate of State Protection and Intelligence (DSN). The questioning of further witnesses strengthened the suspicion that the Macedonian is connected to planned terrorist attacks in Vienna. Attacks in St. Pölten are also said to have been considered by an IS sympathiser group.
Due to extensive investigations by the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counter-Terrorism (LVT), an urgent suspicion arose against the North Macedonian.
The public prosecutor’s office in St. Pölten ordered the arrest of the accused and a search of his flat. He initially denied any involvement in the crime, but finally confessed in full due to the high pressure of the investigation and the seizure of further evidence during the house search. As a motive, he stated that he only wanted to point out the unjust treatment of his Muslim brothers and sisters in Syria and Palestine.
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