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Day 2: Vienna synagogue shooting: Active shooter situation in Austria | ||||
2020-11-03 | ||||
The death toll is likely to rise with at least seven victims in critical condition. One attacker was shot dead by police but several others were thought to be 'on the loose', according to Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
The shooting happened on Schwedenplatz, a square located opposite the Carmelite Quarter, where several synagogues are located, but the attack did not involve the Jewish institutions, the president of the city’s communal organization said. Oskar Deutch, president of the Jewish Community in Vienna, on Monday told the Kurier news site that none of the city’s Jewish institutions appear to have been hit. But he did not know if they had been a target in the shooting and warned the city’s Jews to stay home. According to Rabbi Jacob Biderman, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Austria, all of the city’s synagogues have been accounted for with no known injuries or loss of life in the Jewish community. Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer described the assailant killed by police in an attack in central Vienna on Monday as an "Islamist terrorist." "We experienced an attack yesterday evening from at least one Islamist terrorist," he told a news conference, calling the man an Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... sympathizer. Several "heavily armed and dangerous" attackers were still on the loose as police shut down and sealed off large parts of central Vienna in a manhunt, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said in local media interviews. "We have brought several special forces units together that are now searching for the presumed terrorists. I am therefore not limiting it to an area of Vienna because these are mobile perpetrators." According to news reports from the Austrian capital, it is unknown how many perpetrators were involved. Austrian police said the attack involved six scene of the crimes - Salzgries, Schwedenplatz, Graben, Fleischmarkt, Bauernmarkt and Morzinplatz. Ludwig also reported that at least one perpetrator was equipped with a long weapon, but also a pistol and a machete - so he was "very well prepared." A report by the Teletrader news agency later indicated a possible hostage situation, as hostages were taken taken at the Akakiko sushi restaurant in Mariahilfer Stasse, roughly 2.5 kilometers away from the synagogue in Seitenstettengasse. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... it is unknown at this point if and how the incidents are connected.
In addition, reports said there had been an explosion, with one of the assailants possibly blowing himself up. Vienna Mayor Michael Ludwig said the attacker who was killed is suspected to have worn an explosive belt.
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Posted by:Clem |
#4 why you wanna keep the alive? Let then meet their "virgins". |
Posted by: Chris 2020-11-03 19:16 |
#3 Any surviving jihadis should be kept alive on a diet of Vienna sausages and water from a sulfur mineral spring. |
Posted by: Rob Crawford 2020-11-03 08:22 |
#2 After all this time, and after all the intervening events we find ourselves back at the Gates of Vienna with savages prowling the streets. Perhaps it's time to go ahead and take seriously the religious commands in their book and act accordingly. |
Posted by: Cesare 2020-11-03 07:21 |
#1 Set as today’s headline, though it may be superseded later if things get really interesting here at home. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2020-11-03 01:21 |