By: V4 Agency
After the Vienna terrorist attack which claimed four lives in early November, police are still clueless about how the weapons used by the assailant, including an automatic assault rifle, got to Austria and then the centre of Vienna from the attacker’s home. Authorities have ruled out the possibility that the attacker had relied on public transport and police are investigating a new, mysterious video.
The short footage shows a road at night and a passenger holding a rifle between his legs, which is said to be the same model that the assassin used in the attack.
According to a news report aired by Austria’s public broadcaster ORF on Saturday, a special investigative team is already looking into the recording to try and authenticate it and establish whether it may be linked to the assailant’s arrival in downtown Vienna.
For now, it is unclear who is in the front passenger seat or whether the video was recorded on or before 2 November.
The mysterious clip was posted in two WhatsApp chat groups after the attack, at least one member of which is said to have had contact with the assassin in the weeks before the crime. According to ORF, authorities suspect that this is the man who drove the BMW car seen in the brief video.
Austrian investigators believe the perpetrator of the Vienna attacks also met with German and Swiss Islamists in the summer in the Austrian capital.
Kujtim Fejzulai, an Austrian citizen from an Albanian family in northern Macedonia, killed four people and wounded twenty-three others in downtown Vienna on 2 November. He was shot dead by responding offiers on the spot. The attack was later claimed by the Islamic State terrorist organisation. The attacker’s criminal record shows that he was already incarcerated once for wanting to travel to Syria to join a terrorist group.
Authorities find possible Swiss links to Vienna terrorist attack
The arrest of two Swiss nationals, assumed to have been in contact with the Vienna terrorist, suggests a connection between the Vienna terrorist attack and a Swiss town knows as a hotbed of Islamist radicalisation.