Spectacular arrest in the video: Man with machete appears in front of the chancellery 

There is a spectacular arrest at the Federal Chancellery in Vienna. A man with a machete enters the Ballhausplatz - then access is made by a SEK.

• Vienna: Police surprise man with machete on Ballhausplatz .
• Special  task force WEGA  accesses near the Austrian presidential residence.
• Chancellery of Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) is close to the crime scene.

Munich / Vienna - Spectacular arrest at Ballhausplatz in Vienna ! And this in the midst of the all-encompassing  corona crisis * .

A special task force overwhelmed a man with a machete in the Austrian capital near the Chancellery and the presidential residence on Tuesday morning . 

The detainee is said to be a 33-year-old Austrian citizen.

Spectacular arrest in Vienna: Macheten-Mann wants to go to parliament

That had happened: A vehicle owner spoke to a passerby in the city center “and asked the man how to get to parliament. After the witness found this strange, he alarmed the emergency call, "police spokesman Daniel Fürst said in an interview with Puls24 :" This witness also stated that the 33-year-old had a machete with him. A major operation was triggered immediately. Several radio strips drove to the 1st district. "

While filming on Ballhausplatz, reporter @PBatruel witnessed the police arresting an armed man who wanted to speak in parliament. # puls24 # COVID19de pic.twitter.com/40wb7jCMjr

Accordingly, the WEGA , the special unit of the Austrian police in the federal capital Vienna, was also out . 

A short time later, a police officer managed to stop the man in the Ballhausplatz area and engage in a conversation, Fürst continued, "and then WEGA's forces came and were able to secure the man."

Machetes man in Vienna: Shortly before the official residence of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz

The police could not yet provide any information on the background , it said: “The parliamentary operation was never exposed to any danger. The man could be put up and arrested in no time. ”

The place of arrest is in close proximity to the Chancellery of Prime Minister Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) and the official residence of the Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen . 

The Parliament of the Alpine Republic is on the other side of the Volksgarten in the 1st district of the city center. 

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