Year: 2020

Official representatives of the republic had already commemorated the victims of the terrorist attack by laying wreaths. Four victims and the assassin were killed in an attack on Monday evening. Several injured are still in critical condition. Federal President Van der Bellen spoke earlier of a “dark night that we have behind us”. Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Wolfgang Sobotka laid wreaths on Vienna’s Schwedenplatz, the starting point of the terrorist attack. Also the club representatives of the parliamentary parties, the Mayor of Vienna Ludwig…

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On Tuesday, the number of corona patients in hospital increased by almost 300. No numbers have been reported from Lower Austria so far. On the first day of the second corona lockdown, only preliminary Austrian figures were available from the authorities until Tuesday afternoon. Within 24 hours 4182 new infections were reported. However, the figures from Lower Austria were not included, as they could not yet be reported for technical reasons, according to the Ministry of Health. The majority of the cases concerned Upper Austria with 1,098 new infections, in…

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Cardinal Christoph Schönborn addressed the population with an appeal not to respond to violence and hatred with panic or even new hatred. “To this blind hatred, hatred must not be an answer,” he said on Tuesday morning, November 3, 2020, in an ORF interview on Vienna’s Stephansplatz. “You will not get our hatred”“Hate only stirs up new hatred” – and this is just as much the wrong way to react to the terrible events of the night as to panic, “for he who panics is always in danger of carrying…

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After the Islamist terrorist attack in downtown Vienna on Tuesday, there were no indications of a second perpetrator for the time being. This was said by Minister of the Interior Karl Nehammer at a press conference in the afternoon. Four people and the perpetrator were killed, a total of 22 other people were injured. In the vicinity of the perpetrator, 18 house searches were carried out in Vienna and Lower Austria, and 14 people were provisionally arrested. Nevertheless, an increased security alert was maintained. According to the Minister of the…

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The assassin who was shot by the police was 20 years old. He had previously been detained because he had tried to travel to Syria and join the IS. It took only nine minutes after the first emergency call to the police – then the assassin was already dead. Before he was shot by the police, the man – and suspected other perpetrators – caused a bloodbath in downtown Vienna. The police have meanwhile identified the assassin. The man (name known to the editorial staff) was 20 years old, had…

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After the attack in Vienna on Monday evening, politicians throughout Europe expressed their solidarity with Austria most especially with the victims of the attact. The Democratic presidential candidate in the USA, Joe Biden, called for unity against hatred and violence. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen expressed her “shock and sadness”. Earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron and UN Secretary General António Guterres also strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Vienna. In view of the terrorist attack in Vienna, the Democratic presidential candidate in the USA, Joe Biden, called for…

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After the terrorist attack on Monday evening in Vienna, Minister of the Interior Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) took stock of the situation in a press conference on Tuesday morning and called on the population to stay at home. His thoughts were with the victims and their families. Minister Nehammer talk about three victims – two men and one woman – and 15 seriously injured. The fourth dead is an assassin who has now been identified. It had been an attack by at least one Islamist.According to Nehammer, it was a situation…

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