The Austrian authorities reported on Sunday that the suspect he believed was mortally stabbed by a 14-year-old boy and wounded five people in the village of Villach, a Syrian refugee who advocated her loyalty to the Islamic State.
At a press conference, Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said the 23-year-old Syrian citizen was arrested seven minutes after the attack on Saturday took place in the village of about 60,000 people bordering with Italy and Slovenia.
“This is an Islamist attack with the ISO is an attacker who radicalized in a very short time online online,” Karner told reporters, according to Associated Press.
As for mass migration and asylum seekers, Karner, Conservative, he said he would ultimately be needed to “spend a mass review for no reason, because this killer was not striking.”
Corinthia police chief, Michael Kohlweiss, Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner, Government Government Karinthi Peter Kaiser and Villach Mayor, Guenther Albel, addressed a press conference on February 16, 2025. (Gerd Eggenberger/APA/AFP via Getty Images)
“There is compassion, there is sadness, but in those moments there is also understandable anger and anger,” Karner added, Reuters said. “Anger of an Islamist striker who randomly stabbed innocent people here in this city.”
The attack followed the day after Vice President JD Vance Again, European leaders are at a safety conference in Munich for mass migration as well as breaking of speech.
As the authorities discovered the alleged “Islamic Terror motive”, Austrian end leader Herbert Kickl, whose party won the national elections four months ago, invited the “rigorous asylum” after the attack.
Kickl wrote on Saturday that he was “appalled by a terrible act in Villach.”
“At the same time, angry with me on those politicians who allowed them to stab, rape, gang wars and other capital crimes become order of a day in Austria. This is a first-class failure of the system, for which the young man in Villachu has now had to pay his life “Kickl said.
“From Austria to the EU – the wrong rules are in effect everywhere. No one is allowed to challenge them, everything has been declared a sacrosan,” he said, adding that his party on his electoral platform emphasized what he considered to change the changes immigration.
The suspect is charged with murder and attempted murder. Austrian police said the suspect was recorded for loyalty, according to Reuters.
State Police Director Michael Kohlweiß said the authorities were searching for a suspected apartment with Sniffer dogs and found that the flags were on the walls.
No weapons or dangerous items found, she added, but police seized mobile phones. Police were investigating whether there was a suspect any of the experiments.
“The current picture is that of the lone perpetrator,” Kohlweiß said, according to AP.
The Government of the State of Carinthia, Peter Kaiser thanked the other Syrian citizen, a 42-year-old man who worked for a food delivery company, who was driving to the suspect and helped prevent the situation from getting worse.
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“It shows that the narrow terrorist evil, but also the human good, can be united in one and the same citizenship,” Kaiser said.
Mayor of Villach, Guenther Albel, said the attack was “a sting in the heart of the city.”
The leader of the Austrian Conservative Party Christian Stocker told the X that the attacker “must be performed to justice and be punished with the full power of the law.”
“We all want to live in safe Austria, adding that it means that it means political measures to avoid such acts of horror in the future,” he said.
The day before Vance visited a safety conference in Munich, Afghanistan refugee pushed a car in a crowd in a German city on Thursday, injuring dozens of people, including his mother and her two -year -old daughter, who later died.
Vice President JD Vance addresses the safety conference in Munich, Germany, Friday, February 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
“The number of immigrants who entered the EU from countries that did not double the EU between 2021 and 2022, and of course, it has been significantly higher since then,” Vance said on Friday. “It’s the Result of A Series of Conscious Decisions Made by Politicians All Over the Continent. Others across the World over the Span of a Decade. We Saw the Horrors Wrought by Thee Decisions Yesterday in this Very. They bring him again without thinking about the terrible victims who have spoiled a beautiful winter day in Munich.
“It’s a terrible story, but that’s what we’ve heard too many times in Europe, and unfortunately too many times in the United States,” Vance said. “Asylum seeker, often a young man in his mid-1920s, who is already known to the police, breaks the car in the crowd and breaks the community. How many times do we have to suffer these awful failures before changing the course and taking over our common civilization to a new direction?”
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The Villach Stab on Saturday marked what is believed to be the second deadly Islamic terrorist attack in Austria in recent years. In November 2020, a man who had previously tried to join the Islamic State took a rampage in Vienna, armed with an automatic rifle and a false explosive vest, killing four people before police shot him fatal. Last August Austrian authorities said the teenager in Vienna had prevented a planned attack at the Taylor Swift concert in Vienna, who also allegedly promised loyalty to IS.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
