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The checks cover 229 prisoners convicted of terrorism-related offenses or showing signs of radicalization, the Ministry of Justice said on Saturday.
Searches have also been carried out in cells, and 12 prisons report finding suspicious objects, mostly written documents showing links to extremism.
As reported, the shooting Monday night in the center of Vienna, in which another 20 people were injured, was held by a 20 – year – old Albanian Supporter of Daesh (Islamic State) Kujimim Fejzulais, who had Austrian and Northern Macedonia citizenship.
He was shot by the police himself.
The young man was sentenced to one year and ten months in prison last April for trying to go to Syria to join the group. “Islamic StateHowever.
The Austrian authorities have acknowledged a number of errors in the assessment of the criminal’s danger.
No Slovak a Germany the information received by the judicial authorities should have led to a different assessment, said Gerhard Pirstl, Vienna’s police chief.
The head of the Vienna Police Intelligence Unit, as well as several of its staff, have already been removed.
Several people who identified the killer have been detained.
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