Bloody knife attack in Villach: IS-Fanatiker is indiscriminately!

Bloody knife attack in Villach: IS-Fanatiker is indiscriminately!

Villach, Österreich - In Villach, a 23-year-old Syrian IS fanatic unleashed the horror on Saturday afternoon by indulge in passers-by with a previously bought folding knife. The 14-year-old Alex was killed in this brutal attack, while five other people, including a 32-year-old man with life-threatening injuries, were injured. The wounded are currently in stable condition, but the details about the terrible incident remain shocking. According to krone.at , the perpetrator said in the interrogations that he had not felt remorse and wanted to kill as many people as possible. He also describes his radical internet influence on platforms such as Tiktok, which took place within only three months.

criminal history and radicalized views

The perpetrator, Ahmad G., came to Austria in 2019 after submitting a fake ID during the entry and was then rejected to Germany. In his asylum application, he explained that he had fled in Syria for fear of military service. In 2021 he received refugee protection in Austria and later moved to Villach. His criminal past is also explosive, because he had to serve a compensation sentence for falsification of documents in Germany. It shows that Ahmad G. has lived more and more in the past few months and often prayed alone, which of reports of his roommates, as Today.at notes.

After the devastating incident, Ahmad G. was transferred to the Klagenfurt prison. The public prosecutor has applied for the custody and the investigation into murder and five times the attempt to murder. He had acquired the murder weapon, a 10-centimeter folding knife, just three days before the attack. Due to the attack, the city's politics has already announced a mourning rally for the victims, while the carnival celebrations should still take place, which causes a lot of excitement. The Villacher Grinse assassin has terribly affected the lives of many people and is now being held responsible.