Large deployment on the ORF: Ddemolving the attack causes excitement in Vienna!

Large deployment on the ORF: Ddemolving the attack causes excitement in Vienna!

On Tuesday evening, the "ZiB2" reported on a serious threat of attack against the ORF center on Küniglberg. A 53-year-old man had triggered a major police on Tuesday morning when he blocked the access to the building with a small truck and claimed that there was a bomb in the hold. OE24 reports .

The incident started around 5:00 a.m. when the driver informed the police. As a result, the entire area around the ORF center was cordoned off. The emergency services searched the truck and the surrounding area, but could not find an explosive body. The assignment was successfully finished around 10:30 a.m. and the man was arrested.

background of the perpetrator

public prosecutor and the State Office for State Security and Extremism Control (LSE) have already investigated the 53-year-old. During the exam, it turned out that the man is known and had already parked a truck at Heldenplatz in December 2024 to draw attention to a book. In this incident, he did not issue a threat and was only displayed according to administrative criminal law. On the truck, which he had parked at the time, it was handwritten to a book: "Kullmann Wissen Wissen Klimaweitelade", as well as an email address Salzburg24 informed .

Wilton Kullmann, the author of the book, dealt in the 1990s and 2000s with esoteric topics such as "Earth and Stirring". The first investigations indicate that it does not come from radical environmental or climate protection scenes, nor belong to right-wing extremist circles. However, it remains unclear whether it is temporarily accommodated in a forensic-therapeutic facility.

reactions and security measures

The ORF center itself remained unpotedized despite the incident, but parts of the building complex were cleared and surrounding buildings were temporarily evacuated. Several streets in the area were closed to offer the emergency services enough space. The deflection service and explosive organs were also involved in the operation. People who were stressed by the large -scale operation were looked after by the career rescue Federal Criminal Police Office .

Moderators of ORF, like Armin Wolf, reacted to this threatening situation with a very emotional comment in the "ZiB2": "Hurray, we still live." This sentence summarizes the relief about the successful use of the security forces. At a time when such threats occur more and more often, public security remains an important topic for everyone involved.