He is considered to be a single perpetrator, and yet the assassin of Vienna, Kujtim F. seems to be well connected to have been. The man, who was killed last Monday in the city of Vienna four people and 23 part is badly injured, anyway, also traces to Germany. To investigators of the Federal criminal police office (BKA) search since Friday morning, the homes of several Islamists. Four men from Osnabrück, Kassel and the Kreis Pinneberg, used those of the Austrian assassin, apparently, to contacts a total.
The Federal government wants to lawyers to find out in Karlsruhe, whether the men had something to do with the assassination to. Yet not is determined against you. The attorney General initiated proceedings in connection with the attack in Vienna, is still running against the unknown.
According to SPIEGEL information, the two Islamists from Osnabrück Kujtim F. had visited in July for several days in his apartment in Austria. The Meeting should have been noticed by the Austrian authorities.
Islamist from the district of Pinneberg
In Schleswig-Holstein a threat with the surname W. from the district of Pinneberg, after MIRROR information in the visor of the investigators. He is said to have lived with his family in Vienna, recently, to Germany in order to be returned. The 22-Year-old files is already relevant advice.
Two years ago, the regional court of Hamburg sentenced him for the preparation of severe state-endangering acts of violence to probation. Together with five other Islamists W. had tried to “Islamic state” (IS) to Syria leave the country. According to the verdict, the group was already in Bulgaria.
The man whose apartment was searched, visited earlier, the teaching of hate preacher Abu Walaa in Hildesheim, the need to answer currently, as alleged IS a member of the court. A number of young men from his entourage had joined the terrorist militia in Syria. Also anise Amri, the assassin from Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz, moved temporarily in Abu Walaas circle of haze.
In the case of W., the police found in the spring of 2016 after the visit of the “Easter seminar” in the Hildesheimer mosque hand-written notes. The investigators believed to recognize a To-Do list prior to departure in the Jihad, which he denied. On the note said: “keep Fit, sleep rhythm build up, last month to spend with family, saying goodbye pictures, PC delete.” In chat W. “Mohammed al-is the Culture,” Mohammed, the Chechen called.
German authorities alerted
The German authorities were alarmed in view of the contacts of the Austrian Kujtim F. in the German Islamists scene months ago. To terror investigators took the later assassin and his acquaintances in Germany at the end of September in the framework of a so-called risk prevention process to target.
Such investigations allow the police time-limited supervision measures in case of imminent danger. The BKA’s investigation showed, but apparently, little of Substance emerged.
However, both the men from Osnabrück, W. from the district of Pinneberg, as well as the man with the last name G., whose apartment in Kassel on Friday morning searches aroused the attention of investigators. W. should have stood with the assassin via Telegram in contact. G. to have the same friends with Kujtim F..
Note overslept
In the summer of apparatus seeped in the Austrian security is a more controversial note. As the Slovak authorities had already warned in July, their colleagues in the neighbouring country, that two suspicious men were in a white BMW with Vienna mark in Bratislava on the way and tried to buy ammunition for a Kalashnikov rifle. 10. September reported the Austrians on Europol that they have one of the two men are identified: the relevant convicted Islamists Kujtim F. The car was registered to the mother of another IS-trailer from Vienna.
Nevertheless, a Kalashnikov, a pistol and a Machete managed to get Kujtim F. by the Austrian authorities unnoticed before his attack sharp weapon. How it could come to such a serious glitch that should clear up a Commission of inquiry.
Contacts to German jihadists
From a judgment of the district court in Vienna shows, learned Kujtim F. already in the case of a departure attempt to Syria in the year 2018, two German jihadists in Turkey. To whom it was not clear from the documents. Before Kujtim F. was able to get across the border to Syria, he was arrested.
In the spring of 2019 F. in Vienna, was convicted of membership in a terrorist organization to 22 months in prison. However, he was dismissed in December, in advance of De-radicalisation experts.
Among the people that the 20-year-old Austrian with a Northern Macedonian roots killed on Monday, was also a German. In an exchange of fire with the police, Kujtim was taken by F. fatal.
