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Austrian prosecutors suspect 21 people of aiding a Viennese terrorist

The number of people suspected of complicity in the Vienna terrorist attack has risen to 21, a spokeswoman for the Vienna prosecutor’s office, Nina Busek, said on Friday.

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The suspects are between the ages of 16 and 28 and have not been directly involved in the attack, in which four people and the shooter himself were killed last week, police investigator Michael Loneger told a news conference in Vienna.

Ten suspects are in custody.

“They are basically suspected of promoting the crime before the terrorist attack and of belonging to a terrorist group and a criminal organization,” Busek said.

November 2, 20-year-old of Albanian origin “Islamic State“Kujtim Fejzulais, a supporter, carried out a shooting in the center of Vienna, killing four people and injuring more than 20. shot by police.

Fejzulais, who had Austria a Northern Macedonia citizenship, was released early in December and involved in a deradicalisation program. He was convicted of trying to go to Syria to join the terrorist group Islamic State.

The Austrian government has been criticized in light of reports that the police have not acted, despite the fact that Fezulul met with radical Islamists from Germany a Swiss.

Police received information from the police before the attack in Vienna Slovakthat Fejzulais tried to buy ammunition in Slovakia in July.

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