Prevented assassination attempt at Swift concert in Vienna: further arrest-Diepresse.com
A 20-year-old was custody in Vienna. Together with Beran A. and the Hasan E. arrested in Saudi Arabia, he is said to have had attack plans in the name of IS.
In connection with a terrorist network that has been on the prevented assassin since late spring 2023 Taylor SwiftConcert in the Vienna Ernst-Happel Stadium may have formed a further arrest. This was confirmed by the spokeswoman for the Vienna public prosecutor’s office, Nina Bussek, on Thursday evening of the APA. « Puls24 » first reported on the arrest.
The arrested 20-year-old-a native Slovak with residence in Vienna favorites-is suspected of being part of an IS terrorist cell together with Beran A. (20) and Hasan E. (20). The three alleged supporters of the radical Islamic terrorist militia « Islamic state“(IS) should have had close contact since May 2023 and have planned attacks in Mecca, Dubai and Istanbul from February 2024, which should have been carried out at the same time.
Attacking plans are assumed in Istanbul
The Slovaks are subject to stop plans in Istanbul. He had flown to Istanbul on March 4, 2024, where Hasan E. had already gone. The two knew each other since 2020. They had attended the same school and, in addition to the interest in martial arts, also shared the same beliefs. They prayed together and visited the same mosques. In Istanbul the two went out, visited the sights and bought perfumes. While Hasan E. continued to go to Mecca on March 7, his friend returned to Austria without an attack in Istanbul.
Beran A. – A suspected IS supporter from the Neunkirchen district – only joined the two in 2023. He is considered the main suspect in connection with the thwarted stop plans to a appearance by Taylor Swift on August 9, 2024. This was canceled shortly after the management of state protection and intelligence service (DSN) had become aware of a foreign partner service from a terrorist threat situation and had researched and arrested the young Lower Austrian.
Three sets at the same time planned on March 11, 2024
In the course of the further surveys, it turned out that Beran A. may have been pursuing terrorist intentions for a long time. With his well -known Hasan E., which was most recently associated with IS, who most recently lived in the Bruck on the Leitha district, and the one who has now been arrested was said to be a chicial bloody approach. Specifically, they are said to have had in mind to carry out an assassination at the beginning of the Lent Month at the beginning of the fasting month – at the same time in three different locations abroad. Beran A. flew to Dubai and, according to the results of the investigation, had to put a soldier down in front of a mosque and then « shoot at people in the area » with his revolver, as he was said to have stood later. Then the courage left him. He decided « at the last moment » against an attack because he was afraid of « dying in the police hail and having to suffer », he confessed after his arrest in August.
Hasan E. flew to Mecca and implemented his terrorist plans there. He got a knife and stuck in front of the Al Haram Mosque – the largest mosque in the world, in her farm there is the Kaaba, the central sanctuary of Islam – a security officer. When other security forces wanted to overwhelm him, he stabbed and pissed in with the knife and injured four more people.
In a few weeks, negotiations against the 20-year-old in Saudi Arabia, the “courier“Reported. The death penalty is used in Saudi Arabia. The number of executions rose from 172 in 2023 to 345 in the previous year.
Certered since last autumn
The « third man » lived in Vienna until his arrest. At the latest with the evaluation of the cell phones ensured by Beran A., the law enforcement authorities may have classified the Slovaks as terrorist suspects. It can be assumed that he has been observed and closely monitored by state protection since last autumn and that it had crime -tactical reasons that the access has only now been made. As public prosecutor’s office spokeswoman Bussek told APA, the Slovak-born is not yet in the Josefstadt prison. Bussek said that there is an agreement on suspicion of the terrorist association (§ 278 b StGB).
A complaining of the Slovak in the terrorist plans against the Swift concert has so far not proven. With regard to his supposedly murderous project in Istanbul, he is burdened by a video that Beran A. had put online on February 16, 2024 and which was intended for his family after his suicide attack in Dubai. In it, he explained the motives of all three young men to set three terrorist files in the Arab world at the same time and thus a series of attacks that should have cost the police or soldiers. In an Arab country, « normally Sharia prevails », but « the Sharia laws » would be exchanged « for money », complained Beran A. in the video. This would « spit on Islam. »
He and his two accomplices for IS « and for God so that IS can come back » would have planned the series of attacks. The police in Dubai are « the worst. They talk about Islam and Sharia, but they legalize alcohol. (…) They go after Sharia, but when they see someone drinking alcohol, they don’t do anything. This is not the Sharia. This is completely Kufar (unbelievers, note), » Beran A. in the video. (APA)
