14-year-old plans terrorist attack: shocking discovery in Vienna!

14-year-old plans terrorist attack: shocking discovery in Vienna!

In a shocking case, Austrian security authorities prevented a suspected terrorist attack on Vienna's Westbahnhof train station. A 14-year-old boy with Turkish roots who attracted attention through Islamist content on TikTok was arrested on February 10th tagesschau.de reported. During a house search in his children's room in Vienna-Währing, the officers found dangerous utensils, including aluminum pipes, knives and a sketch showing children's drawings of stick figures with weapons, as well as Islamist literature.

The 14-year-old was suspected of membership in a terrorist organization. Despite his young age, his pre-trial detention has now been extended by a month because an acute condition continues“Danger of committing a crime”consists. During the arrest, the teenager was carrying a knife with a five centimeter long blade. His lawyer Anna Mair said that the boy had been radicalized on TikTok since the summer and his parents knew nothing about this development. Loud krone.at, the police took the boy's actions very seriously because he was pursuing specific attack plans that were apparently linked to the dangerous ideology of Islamism.

In this context, the Austrian authorities warn of the growing digital radicalization of teenagers and young adults. This becomes all the more urgent after another incident in Villach, in which a 23-year-old Syrian carried out a knife attack and killed a teenager, once again points to an Islamist background. Such cases highlight the danger posed by the radicalization of young people.