Fejzulai was released prematurely last December when the authorities seemed to be on the path to deradicalization. A 20-year-old assassin was killed by police intervention units on Monday night.
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“He came from a completely normal family. For me, he was a young man who was unlucky with bad friends. If he did not go to the mosque, but to boxing, he would become a boxer,” said Vienn’s lawyer Nikolaus Rast to his former client. “I never thought he could be an assassin,” he said.
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A picture of the probable perpetrator of the attacks in Vienna
Foto: Twitter/Peter Velle
The lawyer defended the young man in a lawsuit in the Vienna Provincial Court, who sent IS supporters to prison. He was previously detained by the Turkish authorities and extradited to Austria.
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The Austrian counterintelligence service BVT, which is also in charge of the fight against terrorism, was alerted to the boy when his mother reported him missing. It turned out that nothing had happened to him and that he was on his way to Syria.
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Rast believes that Fejzulai radicalized himself as a teenager in the mosque he regularly visited. According to the lawyer, he was a young man looking for his place in life.
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The lawyer said that already during the investigation and after the conviction, the young man was taken over by a social curator and the Derad organization, which works with radicalized perpetrators of crimes.
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The Austrian authorities apparently considered at the end of last year that a native Austrian of northern Macedonian origin was no longer dangerous; On December 5, he was released on parole.
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The North Macedonian Ministry of the Interior said on Tuesday that Austria had turned to it for help in the investigation. Fejzulai had both Austrian and North Macedonian passports and, according to name, was rooted in the Albanian minority in Northern Macedonia, which makes up about a quarter of the Balkan population.
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