EU Planned attack on Vienna rainbow parade prevented

State Protection​

Planned attack on Vienna rainbow parade prevented​

18.06.2023 at 11:26


DSN Director Omar Haijawi-Pirchner and Vienna State Police Chief Gerhard Pürstl at the PK on the attack on Sunday.TOBIAS STEINMAURER

Immediately before the parade on Saturday, the State Security arrested three young men. They had planned to carry out an attack "with a knife or motor vehicle".

Three young men are said to have planned an attack on the Rainbow Parade, which took place in Vienna on Saturday. The suspects, aged 14, 17 and 20, were arrested before the start of the event, Omar Haijawi-Pirchner, director of the State Protection and Intelligence Directorate (DSN), said at a press conference on Sunday.

The annual colorful march for the rights of LGBTIQ+ people took place for the 27th time on Saturday. More than 300,000 people are said to have taken part. For the participants in the parade, "at no time was there a decided danger," Haijawi-Pirchner stressed. The DSN had obtained knowledge in advance of the alleged plans of the suspects, who were radicalized online and sympathized with the Islamic State (IS), kept them "under constant control" and arrested them on the orders of the St. Pölten public prosecutor's office after house searches on Saturday, which uncovered various evidence, including weapons.

"With knife or motor vehicle"
The three young men, Austrian citizens of Bosnian and Chechen origin, respectively, had planned to carry out an attack "with a knife or motor vehicle," it said. They had planned an "attack in Vienna" with the Rainbow Parade as a "possible target," it said. One of the suspects had already been known to the police in connection with acts of terrorism.

As Haijawi-Pirchner explained, at no time had there been a "decided danger". The alleged perpetrators had been monitored "closely". They had radicalized themselves online and shared IS content. There were also indications that they had bought weapons abroad. The trio was arrested before the start of the parade by members of the Cobra task force.

Now the extensive evidence, including cell phones, weapons, throwing stars, gas weapons as well as a saber and the seized data carriers, had to be evaluated. The public prosecutor in St. Pölten ordered the arrest of the three, and they were taken to the local prison.

One of the suspects also had a vehicle at his disposal. In addition however further investigations are necessary whether he had wanted to use this also. It would also have to be investigated whether the gas weapons had been modified or adapted.

Organizer informed only today
The organizer of the rainbow parade was informed only today, Sunday, about the events. One had not wanted to create panic reactions among the participants, especially since the police raid had already taken place. According to Haijawi-Pirchner, the three should have already carried out appropriate preparatory actions: "There was a corresponding moment of danger in the run-up, but that could be completely intercepted."

For the politicians participating in the rainbow parade, the appropriate security and protection concepts had been implemented yesterday. What these looked like exactly, the DSN head did not want to reveal, so as not to jeopardize them in the future. (APA)

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[Otis Mallebrok]

I am conflicted: Do I hate the mohammedan invaders or the degenerate groomers more?

 

[patcon guy]

lol europe is now a goddamn joke. i swear, it's either le muslimerinos or le far-right gangs (it's real, look it up *cough* *cough* the identitarian movement). maybe in the future fagrope can sort their shit out but man.... who knows at this point.

I am conflicted: Do I hate the mohammedan invaders or the degenerate groomers more?

you do know that the crooks were radicalized, right?

 

[Otis Mallebrok]

you do know that the crooks were radicalized, right?

I don't care. One thing the faggots and muslim radicals have in common, is their desire to rape children. Their fake prophet did it to a nine year old. And this is why the faggots and mohammedans will share barracks in the camps. There they can fuck each other.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

I don't care. One thing the faggots and muslim radicals have in common, is their desire to rape children. Their fake prophet did it to a nine year old.

And how many of them are doing it now? Face it, it's time to convert to Islam, kiwibros. It's not like you have a choice if you live in Europe.

 

[RACISM]

I bet they could stop every terror attack if they wanted. If this had been a Christmas market filled with children and grannies instead of AIDS-ridden faggots, they would have let it go ahead.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

lol europe is now a goddamn joke. i swear, it's either le muslimerinos or le far-right gangs (it's real, look it up *cough* *cough* the identitarian movement). maybe in the future fagrope can sort their shit out but man.... who knows at this point.


you do know that the crooks were radicalized, right?

I don't agree that wanting to kill pedophiles is a radical ideology.

 

[Vect]

Yeah, start martyring the LGBTQs, cause that’s proven to make them go away!

If this had gone through there’d be planeloads full of trannies heading over to distribute T-shirts with Drag Queen Prophet Muhammad tomorrow.

 

[Otis Mallebrok]

And how many of them are doing it now? Face it, it's time to convert to Islam, kiwibros. It's not like you have a choice if you live in Europe.

Of course we have a choice. Its the foreigners and degenerates who has no choice. They need us for our money, clean streets, infrastructure and civilization. We don't need them, though, and that will be their downfall.

 

[patcon guy]

I don't agree that wanting to kill pedophiles is a radical ideology.

it STILL is a radical ideology because 1) your motivation to fill fags comes from an ideology and 2) you are driven to your core a.k.a got radicalized by it.

Their fake prophet did it to a nine year old

are you serious nigga? age of consent works radically different back then. age of consent in the place muhammad lives in is decided my a girl's menstruation. and even then, muhammad didn't just go and fuck the 9 year old girl, he just married her. he waited until she's old enough to fuck (reaching 18 years of age).

seriously, i'm sick and tired of people oversimplifying histories because history is spaghetti of convolutions and messes.

is their desire to rape children

fucking lmaooooo.

 

[Otis Mallebrok]

are you serious nigga? age of consent works radically different back then. age of consent in the place muhammad lives in is decided my a girl's menstruation. and even then, muhammad didn't just go and fuck the 9 year old girl, he just married her. he waited until she's old enough to fuck (reaching 18 years of age).

He married her at 6, and consummated the marriage at 9. Thats what sunnis believe.

So he was a child molester, who would fit right in at the groomer parade, with the other pedophiles.

 

[patcon guy]

He married her at 6, and consummated the marriage at 9. Thats what sunnis believe.

source?

 

[Soggy paper straw]

One of the suspects also had a vehicle at his disposal. In addition however further investigations are necessary whether he had wanted to use this also.

TLDR - a guy owned a car

For the participants in the parade, "at no time was there a decided danger," Haijawi-Pirchner stressed

So, was there a crime or only wrong-think posted online?

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I will never understand how the police identifies people who are in contact with ISIS (I wonder if we can thank Cloudfare for maintaining the specific website these gentlemen used), and knows they bought weapons illegally... but does not arrest them?
Why risk people being killed if a crime has already been committed? (and also make martyrs out of the victims)

 

[AnotherPleb]

Damn shame. Muzzies will get through eventually, Allah willing!

 

[Otis Mallebrok]

source?

Bukhari

 

[WonderWino]

The three young men, Austrian citizens of Bosnian and Chechen origin, respectively, had planned to carry out an attack "with a knife or motor vehicle," it said.

Proving yet again that muslims aren't fond of those who like taking the vienna sausage

It'll just keep happening, especially when they keep importing muslims who have fundamentally different views and principles than westerners

 

[StayMad]

I like how the article doesn't mention the race, motive to religion. Gee, I wonder why.

 

[malleusmaleficarum]

it STILL is a radical ideology because 1) your motivation to fill fags comes from an ideology and 2) you are driven to your core a.k.a got radicalized by it.


are you serious nigga? age of consent works radically different back then. age of consent in the place muhammad lives in is decided my a girl's menstruation. and even then, muhammad didn't just go and fuck the 9 year old girl, he just married her. he waited until she's old enough to fuck (reaching 18 years of age).

seriously, i'm sick and tired of people oversimplifying histories because history is spaghetti of convolutions and messes.


fucking lmaooooo.

Lol, a seanigger trying to defend the pedophile sandnigger religion of peace. Big surprise. So are you in the Philippines, or Malaysia?

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Amazing how they managed to stop this terror attack because 3 kids were on a watch list and were 100% terrorists, keeping the fags safe.

Yet, some nigger goes stabby in a French park or a Nottingham street and it's "totally not a terror attack just a mental health incident".

I don't wish death upon anyone, but a truck of peace ploughing through a pride parade would cause some interesting reactions.

 

[Rommelbutt]

UPDATE:​

ATTACK PLANS​

Custody for two juvenile suspects​

In connection with a possibly planned Islamist attack on the rainbow parade for LGBTQ rights that took place in Vienna on Saturday, two suspects aged 14 and 17 have been placed in pre-trial detention. The Regional Court of St. Pölten granted a corresponding request by the St. Pölten Public Prosecutor's Office with regard to the two youths. A third suspect, however, was released from custody.
Online since yesterday, 7:58 p.m. (Update: today, 7:33 a.m.)

As the spokesman for the St. Pölten prosecution, Thomas Korntheuer, told the APA on Sunday evening, the court did not assume that the 20-year-old was an urgent suspect. The older brother of the 17-year-old could thus leave the St. Pölten prison, where the three boys had been admitted after they had been arrested on Saturday afternoon.

The St. Pölten public prosecutor's office is currently investigating the suspected Islamists on charges of terrorist association (§278b StGB) and criminal organization (§278a StGB). The jurisdiction of the St. Pölten prosecution authority is based on the brothers' place of residence, which is registered in St. Pölten. The 14-year-old lives in Vienna.

"No concrete threat situation" for parade
According to the head of the Directorate for State Protection and Intelligence (DSN), Omar Haijawi-Pirchner, the arrest of the three suspects had taken place at 12:00 noon on Saturday - and thus an hour before the parade procession started to move. Asked whether there was any question of canceling the event, Haijawi-Pirchner told APA that this had "of course been discussed" in advance. The decision was made against it because it could be ruled out that the three boys had accomplices on the basis of well-founded and reliable investigative findings. At the beginning of the event, there was "no longer any concrete danger".

Already in the focus of the investigators
The suspects had come into the focus of the State Protection Service because, according to Haijawi-Pirchner, they belonged to the radical Islamist scene and had engaged in relevant activities in this direction on the Internet. They had come to the attention of DSN officers. One of them had already been investigated in the past for terrorist association (Section 278b of the German Criminal Code); these proceedings were dropped by the responsible public prosecutor's office.

As is known, the Vienna bomber who carried out a terrorist attack in the federal capital on November 2, 2020, shooting dead four bystanders, is believed to have radicalized himself in the apartment of an Islamist preacher in St. Pölten, among other places.

No direct contact with Vienna attacker
According to the current state of the investigation, the suspects who have now been arrested knew neither the assassin nor the Salafist preacher Argjend G., whose apartment in St. Pölten the later Vienna assassin had visited several times, personally, as Haijawi-Pichner explained in response to an APA inquiry. However, they are likely to have met people from this environment in chat groups on the Internet. "The group of Islamists is getting bigger. And younger," the DSN director stressed.
Haijawi-Pirchner had already assured at the press conference that "at no time was there a decided danger for the participants in the parade". The DSN had received knowledge in advance of the alleged plans of the suspects who had been radicalized online and sympathized with the Islamic State (IS), had kept them "under constant control" and after house searches on Saturday, which brought to light various evidence, including weapons, had arrested them on the orders of the public prosecutor's office in St. Pölten.

Parade as "possible target"
The three young men, Austrian citizens of Bosnian and Chechen origin, respectively, had planned to carry out an attack "with a knife or motor vehicle," it said. They had planned an "attack in Vienna" with the Rainbow Parade as a "possible target," it said. The 14-year-old is of Chechen origin, the other two were originally from Bosnia, the DSN chief said.

As Haijawi-Pirchner explained, there was no "decided danger" at any time. The alleged perpetrators had been monitored "closely". They had shared IS content online. There were also indications of weapons purchases abroad. The trio was arrested before the start of the parade by members of the Cobra task force.

Evidence is being evaluated
Now the extensive evidence, including cell phones, weapons, throwing stars, gas weapons and a saber and the seized data carriers, must be evaluated. The house searches had taken place in Vienna and St. Pölten. The St. Pölten public prosecutor ordered the arrest of the three.

The house searches revealed a number of things

One of the suspects also had a vehicle. However, further investigations were necessary to determine whether he had intended to use it. It would also have to be investigated whether the gas weapons had been modified or adapted. In the Ö1-Morgenjournal on Monday Haijawi-Pirchner said that the evaluation would take "still some time". He did not want to disclose concrete results, but said it was a "well-founded" investigation result, "otherwise the judiciary would not have decided the way it did."

Panic reaction should be avoided
The organizer of the rainbow parade was informed only on Sunday about the events. One had not wanted to create panic reactions among the participants, especially since the police raid had already taken place. According to Haijawi-Pirchner, the three should have already carried out appropriate preparatory actions: "There was a corresponding moment of danger in the run-up, but it could be completely intercepted."

To what extent the danger moment had concretized, Haijawi-Pirchner did not want to say with reference to the ongoing investigations. In any case, the threat to the LGBTQ community had recently increased - "not only from Islamist, but also from the extreme right," the DSN director told APA. It is the task of the state and its authorities to protect this group from attacks, he said.

"No threat scenario" for final rally
For the politicians participating in the rainbow parade, the appropriate security and protection concepts had been implemented on Saturday. What these exactly looked like, the DSN head did not want to reveal, so as not to jeopardize them in the future. When asked by the APA, Haijawi-Pirchner explained that there had been no threat scenario against artists who performed during or at the closing rally of the rainbow parade on Rathausplatz. Among others, Conchita Wurst, who is repeatedly subjected to hostility, took part in the parade, while the openly bisexual German DJ Felix Jaehn performed at the Rathausplatz.

700 officers on duty
The Vienna police had taken "all possible measures and precautions" to secure the event, said state police chief Gerhard Pürstl. A total of 700 officers were on duty, including special forces because of the warning from the State Security Service. The greatest danger comes from radicalized individual perpetrators who act on their own initiative or by order or in agreement with terrorist organizations, Pürstl said: "We must always focus on individual attacks." The LGBTQ community in particular represents an "intense enemy image" for many.

According to DSN Director Haijawi-Pirchner, quite a few police officers from the provinces had also been called in to ensure the security of the event. Haijawi-Pircher estimated that - all forces taken together - a total of about 3,000 officers may have been on duty in connection with the parade.

Katharina Kacerovsky-Strobl, organizer of the Vienna Pride event series with the Rainbow Parade on the Vienna Ring as its highlight, said in an initial statement to APA inquiries about what the threat could mean for the staging of the major event: "We hope to be able to position ourselves even better for the future together with the City of Vienna with regard to such dangers."

DSN insists on more powers for surveillance
Asked how to keep a better eye on the scene in the future, Haijawi-Pirchner told Morgenjournal that while more staff is always welcome, they currently "definitely have enough staff to have the threats that currently exist in Austria well under control." At the same time, he said that it "would be good" to be able to "better monitor communication" in "individual cases" involving dangerous persons. This often takes place via encrypted channels, he said, but he also referred to chat functions in video games, for example, where "unfortunately there is no possibility" to monitor "communication."

red, ORF.at/agencies​

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