The Austrian police have urged people to stay indoors as
they hunt for a serial killer after a multiple gun attack, in Vienna, which killed
four and wounded twenty-two innocent people.
The perpetrator, shot dead by the police, has been
identified as a 20-year-old Austrian North Macedonian man of dual nationality
who wished to join the ISIS group.
The Austrian Chancellor, Sebastian Kurz said that it was a “repulsive
murder” driven by “hatred of our way of life and our democracy”. “The nation is
not only in a battle between Christians and Muslims”, he added, but “between civilisation
and barbarism”.
The Austrian Minister of Interior Affairs, Karl Nehammer described the dead gunman as an “Islamist terrorist”, who was jailed for 22 months, in April 2019, after trying to go to Syria to join ISIS. The 20-year-old had been released, early last December, under more lenient terms for young adults. Mr Nehammer urged his compatriots to stay at home during the police operation and to avoid the inner city. “Children should stay at home on Tuesday”, he added.
Also, 90% of the shops in the centre of Vienna are shut
down. Police cordoned off central
streets and brought in reinforcements.
They are also being helped by the army.
Several arrests were made in Vienna and two suspects were arrested in St
Polten, a town near the Austrian capital.
The Vienna shootings come after a flood of militant attacks
in France. Last month, history teacher,
Samuel Paty was beheaded outside a school, in a Parisian suburb and a Tunisian man fatally stabbed three
people in a Cathedral, in Nice.
The situation is extremely dangerous because these
ghastly shootings are committed by religious fanatics, who never stop as they are instigated
by murderous frenzy and religious paroxysm.
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