Yet after saying this, he appears to have “got into the wrong mosque” again, betraying the faith the judge placed in him. Will authorities ponder the implications of that? Almost certainly not.
“Vienna gunman, 20, who killed four and wounded 17 was released early from prison on terror charges because of his age, had wanted to join ISIS in Syria – but ‘was deemed incapable of an attack,'” by Danyal Hussain and Ross Ibbetson, Mailonline, November 3, 2020:
The Vienna gunman who killed four and wounded 17 last night was released early from prison on terror charges because of his age.
Twenty-year-old Kujtim Fejzulai was jailed in April 2019 because he wanted to travel to Syria to join ISIS but he was granted early release in December under juvenile law. The killer was not deemed capable of carrying out an attack, according to a report.
At least one terrorist started shooting close to a synagogue in the city centre at 8pm.
Armed with an automatic rifle, pistol and machete, Fejzulai was ‘neutralised’ at 8.09pm after marauding through the streets wearing a fake explosives belt.
Two women and two men were killed in his attack, although it is unclear if he was the only shooter and a manhunt is ongoing involving 1,000 security personnel after gunfire was heard in six places in the city centre last night.
Fejzulai was born and raised in the city and was one of 90 Austrian Islamic radicals known to intelligence because they wanted to travel to Syria, one national newspaper editor tweeted this morning.
He had Albanian roots and his parents were originally from North Macedonia, Falter editor Florian Kenk wrote. Police thought he was not capable of planning an attack in Vienna, Klenk added….
The Vienna gunman Kujtim Fejzulai made it all the way to an ISIS safe house on the Turkish border with Syria last year before he was stopped by local police.
These are the facts which emerged in Fejzulai’s trial in April, 2019, during which he admitted that he’d ‘got into the wrong mosque.’
Fejzulai told the judge: ‘I wanted to get away from home. I expected a better life. My own apartment, my own income.’
But he’d earned enough through his summer job in 2018 to buy plane tickets to Kabul where he had arranged to meet ISIS contacts.
It was only after buying the ticket that Fejzulai realised he needed a visa to travel to Afghanistan.
On September 1, 2019, Fejzulai arrived in Syria alone. He spent two days in a ‘rat hole,’ his lawyer told the court, ‘No shower, no toilet, no running water.’
He wad captured by police after two days and detained in Turkey for four months before being extradited back to Austria.
Nehammer said Fejzulai’s home had been raided and video material seized. A total of 15 houses have been searched and several people arrested.
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said this morning: ‘It is now confirmed that yesterday’s attack was clearly an Islamist terror attack. It was an attack out of hatred – hatred for our fundamental values, hatred for our way of life, hatred for our democracy in which all people have equal rights and dignity.’…
Chrissie01 says
when will the time come when those responsible for those wrong decisions will be held personally responsible?
SJ says
Never, they would be given a second chance. Also, the cost of surveiling all potential terrorists is too high! There’s no practical solution.
Buda Nu says
I say BS to your comment. Law enforcement does have the resources to surveil potential terrorists, it’s just the politicians that control them do not have the fortitude to turn them loose.
gravenimage says
Buda Nu, in Austria Muslims make up 7.9% of the population–that’s a *lot* of people to keep an eye on…
Brando says
The best way I see to diminish future killings is that the TV channels (BBC,CNN,NBC,ABC,etc ) and newspapers should have Robert Spencer, David Wood and Jay Smith give their best arguments about why Islam is a false religion (WEEK after WEEK),most
Muslims and non-Muslims don’t know about those arguments.How many know the Koran has errors and contradictions? Let the Muslims give their intellectual arguments also,but the public will see they have no substance.Many Muslims will leave Islam.
SJ says
Ha ha, the mainstream media wouldn’t allow this. It’s too politically correct.
Michael Copeland says
“Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said “….clearly an Islamist terror attack. … an attack out of hatred – hatred for our fundamental values, hatred for our way of life, hatred for our democracy in which all people have equal rights and dignity.’…”
Congratulations, Chancellor, that you have understood this.
The next steps are:
1. Understand that “Islamism” is a decoy, to draw attention away from Islam: the killing is Islamic.
2. The hatred is not personal: it is Islamic teaching, as done in all the mosques.
The sooner the better.
Kepha says
Face it. Roaming the hills with an AK or the streets with a hidden weapon is a lot more romantic and exciting than minding the store or the family farm. Or selling kebap to people of a strange tongue. No wonder the young dude headed off to Afghanistan at the first opportunity–especially when his religion glorifies terrorizing, looting, raping, and killing the Kufr.
Every mosque is the wrong mosque. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead; Muhammad rests in the dust at Medina awaiting the resurrection and judgment along with the rest of us.
A. Cruz says
Amen! This is the truth. God forgive them. For they do not know what they do. May the Lord have mercy on them.
gravenimage says
Kepha, it’s odd that civilized non-Muslims rarely find it more exciting to go out and mass murder people rather than building a career and a life.
SJ says
Why don’t people realize that Muslims who are good human beings are not true Muslims? Islam is batsh*t crazy!
Jedothek says
In the United States, I suggest the phenomenon of dangerous criminals let out of prison is due to parole boards knowing that the prisons are overcrowded and that they must release someone. In this Austrian case, I would be inclined to go for a conspiritorial explanation.
JamesC. says
All things bright and beautiful
All creatures great all small
All things wise and wonderful
Jihadis hate them all.
Each Christian church that opens
Each kaffir soul that sings –
These have no place in Islam
And are forbidden things.
When Ramadan commences
Or Eid-ul-Fitr starts
The Moslem hordes make ready
To terrorise men’s hearts.
With bombs and belts and carbines,
Grenades, and swords and knives,
With vehicles locomotive
They lay waste kaffir lives.
No pandering politician
Ecclesial or lay
The bloody depredations
Of Moslem orcs will stay.
All things bright and beautiful
Before Islam must fall
All things wise and wonderful
To them mean nowt at all
(With apologies to Mrs C. F. Alexander – https://hymnary.org/text/each_little_flower_that_opens#google_vignette
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
Vienna jihad murderer was released from prison early on terror charges, told judge he’d ‘got into the wrong mosque’
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Seems that he was a repeat offender. As if this could not have been predicted. Foolish dhimmis…
JamesC, says
D[h]immi[e]s by name, dimmies by nature.