The Vienna police are on alert because of a terrorist threat in the Austrian capital. "The Directorate of State Security
The presence of patrol officers and anti-terrorist units in the city area has been increased. The police wrote that neuralgic places and objects in Vienna would be monitored more closely.
In November 2020, a convicted sympathizer of the terrorist militia Islamic State shot four passers-by in Vienna city center and injured 23 people, some seriously. In the course of processing the attack, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution was reformed.