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Man who stabbed five people in Austria is suspected Islamist, minister says

by February 16, 2025
February 16, 2025
Man who stabbed five people in Austria is suspected Islamist, minister says

The Syrian asylum seeker suspected of carrying out a deadly stabbing rampage in the Austrian town of Villach is believed to be a follower of Islamic State who was radicalized online, authorities said on Sunday.

A 14-year-old boy was killed in Saturday’s attack and five other people were wounded, police said at a press conference.

Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said the 23-year-old Syrian man arrested soon after the attack had been rapidly radicalized on the internet and that the Islamic State (IS) flag had been found in his apartment. Authorities said the man had sworn an oath of allegiance to IS.

The bloodshed in Villach followed the thwarting of a plot in August to carry out a suicide attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna by a teenager who had sworn loyalty to IS.

Saturday’s rampage also came just days after an attack on Thursday in Munich in neighboring Germany by an Afghan national who drove his car into a crowd, injuring dozens of people, two of whom later died.

It took place at a time of political tension in Austria, where the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) – which won September’s parliamentary election – said last week it was unable to form a coalition government.

Centrist parties are now discussing whether they could try to form a government while the president considers options including moving the country towards a snap election.

Railing against illegal immigration and pledging to increase deportations to countries such as Syria and Afghanistan, which it is currently illegal to deport people to, are central to the FPO’s platform, and the party quickly seized on the Villach attack.

“No migrant would be able to commit murder or any other crime in our country if they were not in Austria in the first place,” FPO leader Herbert Kickl said in a statement posted on social media.

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