Attacks on railway routes : IS-sympathizer from Iraq in Vienna arrested

After the attacks on the Deutsche Bahn in Bavaria and Berlin in 2018, the special unit "Cobra", the Austrian police has taken the Iraqis in Vienna. He is strongly suspect and should sympathize with, according to the security authorities of the terrorist militia "Islamic state" (IS). His goal was to kill as many people as possible, as it was said security sources.

At 7. October 2019, he should have first of all committed in Bavaria, a dangerous interference in rail transport, in order to bring trains to Derail. On the ICE line between Nuremberg and Munich, a steel cable was all over the mountain between the catenary masts, mounted on the rails were reinforced with metal pieces of wood wedges. A ICE had run over the obstacles, but was only slightly damaged.

In Berlin, he should track at the end of December to train to Erkner, between Wuhlheide and Karl Horst a similar attack and an overhead line damage caused. In the vicinity of the crime scenes in Bavaria and Berlin, drafted Drohschreiben and lubrication writings with respect to the IS, as well as in Berlin, had been found in the Arabic language, a IS-flag. In the Letter to have been threatened to carry out attacks in Europe, attacks on railway lines. As a motif, the struggle of the European States against the IS was headed.

both attacks had not been ruled out by the security authorities first, but also that the law could, extremists have tried to IS fake fact. This has proven to be wrong, as the security authorities on Wednesday have informed.

The General Prosecutor's office in Berlin, the General Prosecutor's office of Munich and the land criminal police offices Berlin and Bavaria have for months identified. The authorities established for the cross-national investigation group "route". To the attention of the investigators, the 42-year-old Iraqi nationals living in Vienna/Austria and, obviously, with the IS sympathetic got.

The German investigators contacted the authorities in Austria, the news services were turned on. The Prosecutor's office of Vienna, the Austrian Federal office for the protection of the Constitution and the country the protection of the Constitution in Vienna were also involved.

on Monday, officers of the special unit "Cobra have taken," the 42-Year-old in the vicinity of his apartment in Vienna. On the track, the investigators came to the father of five children by the Drohschreiben. As the "Kronen Zeitung" reported, has led to the use of the pressure the investigators to be the father of a family.

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The man is said to have served for 15 years in the Iraqi army, a military training feature, since 20 years in Austria and in Vienna as a security guard for a security company. In the social media of the suspects, radical preachers, and IS intended to glorify attacks and Muslims in call for to arm themselves. At the same time, he's supposed to be supporters of the 2003 ousted Iraqi dictatorship of Saddam Hussein.