The teenager died and several other people were injured in Villachu in Austria on Saturday after being attacked by a man with a knife, officials said. The suspect is detained in connection with the attack; It is not clear if he knew the victims.
The attack happened around 4:00 pm, killing a 14-year-old and injuring four other people, according to Villach Mayor, a city in the south near Italian and Slovenian borders. The police said Associated Press that two people were seriously injured.
The suspect is a 23-year-old Syrian man with a legal residence in Austria, local police officials said in Interview With Austrian public television Orf. It is unknown if he lived in Villach. The motive is also unknown, but the police are investigating the backdrop of the suspect, said Rainer Dionilio, a spokesman for the Corinthi Police Directorate, the province of Villach.
Peter Kaiser, the Governor of the Carinthia, called for the “sharpest consequences” for the attacker, saying that the perpetrator “must be put on trial, closed and deported” Post on X. Mayor of the City, Günther Albel wrote Target: “To all those who sow hatred and violence, I say: You will not win.”
Several similar attacks In neighboring Germany in recent months, including the Munich car attack last week, they have pushed migration to the forefront of that country’s national election campaign.
Millions of Syrians sought refuge in Europe after the popular uprising against the autocratic longtime leader of the nation, Bashar Al-Assad, who began in 2011, turned into a civil war. The great migration stressed the web of social security in Europe and aroused concerns about assimilation, which sometimes took an open xenophobic form and provided an opening for right -wing, nationalist political movements.
The collapse of the Assad regime in December has encouraged several European countries to stop legal proceedings due to the status of asylum for Syrians. Austria said it would Plan to deport the cheese whose claims for asylum failed.
Violence in Austria is relatively unusual, which since 2023 has been classified as the fifth federal country in the world, they state The global index of peace.
