Bratislava Ammunition from Slovakia was not used during Monday’s terrorist attack in Vienna, but suspects from Austria were trying to buy it there, said Denisa Brdyov, a spokesman for the Slovak police presidium. The APA agency stated that the Austrian councils had received information this week from Slovakia that a convicted Rakuan had tried to buy ammunition there for twenty years. The Slovak Ministry of the Interior stated today that the Slovak security forces informed the Austrian side about it on July 27. Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer admitted that the Austrian secret service had previously received lengthy information from the Slovak side, but “something went wrong” in the communication.
Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer admitted that the Austrian secret service had recently received information from the Slovak side about the mind of a suspect in buying ammunition, but something went wrong in the communication.
The portal of the Austrian newspaper Heute v ter wrote that the perpetrator of the stream in Vienna visited Slovakia in mid-July to procure ammunition for a ton of Kalanikov puck. With this weapon on Monday evening in the center of Vdn, he shot and killed those people; sweat was shot by a police officer.
Slovak police intercepted information in lt that suspected people from Austria were trying to buy ammunition on our ground. However, they did not manage to implement the purchase. We immediately sent the information to our Austrian colleagues, said Brdyov. According to the Austrian authorities, the purchase did not take place because the recipient did not have a weapons passport.
Who was the tonk of Vdn? A young man with Albanian roots, he went to Slovakia for ammunition |
According to the APA, the Austrian Minister of the Interior Nehammer admitted at the press conference on Wednesday that the Slovak secret service informed the Austrian counterintelligence BVT about the attempt to buy ammunition, but in the next steps something was wrong in the communication. The minister now asks the commission’s commissioner to discuss the matter. Nehammer complained that under his predecessor, Herbert Kickl, the right-wing populist Free Party of Austria (FP) had weakened the BVT.
On Wednesday, the Slovak Ministry of the Interior stated that the security forces of the Slovak Republic informed the Austrian side through an information exchange system of Europol on 27 July about an attempt to purchase ammunition for automatic weapons. Austria confirmed the receipt of this information with sufficient additional information, the Slovak ministry said in a statement.
During the last hours, there was information showing that some time before the terrorist flow, the Slovak secret services informed the BVT about tonka. They indicated that he wanted to get ammunition, Nehammer was quoted by the AFP agency.
Twenty-year-old Vdean Kujtim Fejzulai, who had both an Austrian and a North Macedonian passport and, according to his name, had an alien minority in northern Macedonia, was sentenced last April to 22 months in prison for a terrorist alliance. In December, the condition was released because the day showed signs of deradicalization. He was convicted for trying to get to Sri Lanka, where he wanted to fight in the terrorist organization Islmsk stt.
The APA agency quoted Barbara Gthová-Flemmichová, a member of the Austrian Ministry of Justice, as saying that the Austrian councils had not received information from Slovak colleagues about Kujtim Fejzulai’s efforts to buy ammunition for Kalanikov in Slovakia. If they had this information, it would, according to them, be a reason for the arrest of a young man who was released on parole. According to the prosecutor’s office Nina Bussekov, according to the APA, she said that Austria received this information from Slovakia and on the night of the day when the tonka was shot by the police in Vienna.
According to the Reuters agency, a source from the Austrian Ministry of the Interior said that it is not clear whether the first information from Slovakia was followed by optimal communication according to the law. The source said that he saw the information in July.
The two Monday streams were two men and two women. A spokesman for the APA police said that Tonk had killed a nine-year-old Rakuan, a 44-year-old Rakuanka, a 24-year-old German waitress and a 21-year-old Macedonian. Steln injured more than 20 people; One of them is in the hospitals, of which they are intensively working in the units. Injured are Rakuan, but among them are citizens of Germany, Slovakia, Luxembourg, Afghanistan and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the APA said.
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