He is said to have campaigned for an IS supporter, translated Islamist sermons of hate and lectures into German language. He is even said to have been close to the Vienna_assassin Kujtim F.. Now he is on trial. The explosive fact is that the man, who is of Turkish origin, trained as an actor and has performed on Viennese theatre stages.
Eloquent and articulate, a suspected Islamist pleaded “not guilty” to charges of terrorist organisation and terrorist financing before a panel of lay judges at the Vienna Regional Court on Wednesday. The 30-year-old’s confident appearance was no coincidence. The suspected terrorist is training to be an actor and has already performed at two Viennese theatres in the past.
The man with Turkish roots is accused of having participated in the attempt to make the Kurdish Salafist and IS loyalist Halis Bayancuk alias Ebu Hanzala better known in German-speaking countries by translating his sermons, lectures and flyers into German and distributing them. He also allegedly collected donations for the bereaved families of fallen fighters of the radical Islamist terrorist militia “Islamic State” (IS).
Furthermore, in 2018, the accused had contact with the close circle of the later assassin of Vienna, who shot four people in the city centre of Vienna on November 2, 2020. According to the indictment, he chatted intensively in the spring and summer of 2018 with the IS supporter with whom the later assassin set off to Syria in the autumn of the same year to join the IS. However, the two were apprehended in Turkey in autumn 2018, arrested, sent back to Austria and sentenced in 2019.The accused did not deny the chats, but stressed that he had not encouraged the Foreign Terrorist Fighters in their travel plans. The alleged psychological contribution to the crime had not taken place; the two would have travelled without his support. He had known the two – i.e. the later assassin – “from the street, from handing out flyers”. He had met the assassin “in 2017, 2018 on the street”, but only superficially. With his travelling companion – who has been in custody since the terrorist attack as a possible accomplice or co-perpetrator – he had “had contact about five times a year”.
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