Arrest Of Two Bangladeshis In Vienna Attack Case Speaks Of Growing Network Of The ISIS In Austria
New Age Islam Special
Correspondent
6 November
2020
Armed police officers near Schwedenplatz square in Vienna after shots
were fired on Monday. Thomas Kronsteiner/Getty Images
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The
Austrian police have arrested 14 youth in the Vienna terror attack case. Among
them are two Bangladeshi youth aged between 18 and 28 years. Most of the men
arrested have double citizenship of Bangladesh, Turkey, Macedonia and Russia.
The police are trying to ascertain their role in the attack and their
association with the ISIS.
The
assailant who was killed in the encounter is known as Kujtim Fejzulai and was
an active member of the ISIS. He had been born and brought up in Vienna. The
most intriguing part of the incident is that the "soldier of the
caliphate" as he is called by the ISIS had tried to join the ISIS in Syria
in 2019 and was arrested by the Austrian police. He was jailed in April 2019
for 22 months but was released early in December 2019. The reason for his early
release is not known.
In July
this year the neighbouring Yugoslavia had informed Austrian government that two
youth apparently of Arab or Turk or Chechen origin on a BMW car had arrived
Bratislav and had bought weapons from an arms dealer. Later the Austrian
government had informed the Yugoslavian government that the Austrian police had
identified one of the two youth who was known to the police for his terrorist
affiliations. The Austrian police also told Yugoslavian counterparts that the
vehicle used by the two youth belonged to the mother of another 21 year old
youth who had earlier tried for his involvement in terror activities.
According
to reports, in 2018, the Austrian government had the information that 320
persons in the country had shown sympathy with the ISIS and had even tried to
join tbe terror outfit in Syria. Out of them 58 died in the conflict zone, 93
returned to Austria and 63 were prevented from leaving Austria and joining the
ISIS.
The attacks
on November 3 by an ISIS terrorist exposes the lenient anti-terror laws of
Austria and also of the negligence and callous attitude of the police and
intelligence agencies. The police had not been tracking the movements and
activities of the suspected and convicted ISIS activists.
The
terrorists and ISIS sympathisers have also taken advantage of the fair and
unbiased justice and police system of Austria and other European countries
where the accused are considered innocent until proven guilty. They are not
illegally harassed and tortured on communal and ethnic grounds and are not
illegally confined uncharged for long years.
But the
attacks in Vienna, France and Canada by militant youth subscribing to the ISIS
ideology has compelled the European contrives to restructure their anti-terror
laws and rethink their attitude towards immigrant Muslims. French President
Emmanuel Macron is scheduled to visit Vienna on November 9 and participate in a
video conference to deliberate on the issue of their fight against 'Islamic
terrorism' and political Islam.
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