Shot near a synagogue in Vienna.
There are dead and injured.
On the night of Tuesday no all-clear could be given.
There was
a terrorist attack
in
Vienna
on Monday (November 2nd).
The police confirmed six crime scenes.
There was no all-clear until late in the evening.
Vienna - A mild November evening before the lockdown, hundreds of people stroll through the
Bermuda Dreieck
nightlife district
in downtown
Vienna
.
Suddenly there are numerous
shots
.
Panic breaks out.
An incident occurred near the synagogue on Monday evening that Interior Minister
Karl Nehammer
described
as an apparent
terrorist
attack
around two hours later
(to the ticker).
"The attack is still ongoing," said the
interior minister,
audibly tense, in a special
ORF
news program
.
An initial assessment by the police:
one perpetrator shot, a passerby also died
.
Shots were fired
at
six crime scenes
.
Terror in Vienna: No all-clear until 11:18 p.m.
Interior Minister
Karl Nehammer was
later unable to give the all-clear.
The police are still looking for suspects after the alleged terrorist attack in Vienna.
“
We are still in the fight
against the alleged terrorists,” said Nehammer on ORF late Monday evening.
He said there were several heavily armed perpetrators.
The minister again appealed to citizens to avoid public places.
The police were also unable to give the all-clear in a tweet at 11:18 p.m.
The following still applies: stay at home!
When on the go, seek refuge!
Avoid public places, do not use public transport!
# 0211w
- POLIZEI VIENNA (@LPDWien) November 2, 2020
Vienna: Sebastian Kurz confirms: "Definitely a terrorist attack"
Austria's Chancellor
Sebastian Kurz
(ÖVP) made a
similar statement
- there was no all-clear.
"It is
definitely a terrorist attack,
" said Kurz on Tuesday night on the ORF broadcaster.
He urged the population to stay in a safe place and keep an eye on the news.
"Whether it is possible to take up public life as normal tomorrow morning will depend heavily on tonight and
whether it will be possible to capture or eliminate the suspects,
" said Kurz.
According to Kurz, the motive of the attack is still open.
An anti-Semitic background could not be ruled out given the crime scene, said Kurz with a view to the location of the first shots near a synagogue.
“We can't really say anything about the background.” Kurz said the security situation in the city was still very tense, and the emergency services were looking for several perpetrators at full speed.
A perpetrator had been eliminated.
Kurz spoke of 15 injured.
A wounded police officer is now out of danger.
According to a preliminary assessment, an attacker and a passerby were killed in the exchange of fire in downtown Vienna.
In addition, according to the rescue services, 15 people were injured, some seriously.
The police spoke of six crime scenes.
What we can confirm so far:
* Around 8:00 p.m. shots from the Seitenstettengasse area
* Several perpetrators with long weapons (rifles)
* Currently.
total of 6 crime scenes
* 1 fatality, several seriously injured, including a police officer
* 1 perpetrator shot by police # 0211w
- POLIZEI VIENNA (@LPDWien) November 2, 2020
On a video a perpetrator can be seen
shooting at random in the bars
near the
synagogue
, says the editor-in-chief of the city magazine “Falter”, Florian Klenk.
It remains unclear whether the synagogue itself was the target of the attack.
Another video shows a large pool of blood outside a restaurant.
The chairman of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, Oskar Deutsch, wrote on Twitter that it could not be said whether the
city temple * was
one of the targets.
"What is certain, however, is that both the synagogue in Seitenstettengasse and the office building at the same address were no longer in operation and closed at the time of the first shots."
The
police
have called together all available forces and are looking for the perpetrators in the historic center of the two million city.
According to Klenk, some unsettled passers-by raise their hands so the police officers can see that they are unarmed.
It is rumored that at least one of the perpetrators
is wearing
an
explosives
belt.
That increases the nervousness.
Terror in Vienna: Google marks the scene of the crime with warning signs
After the attack in downtown Vienna,
Google marked
one of the crime scenes with a warning sign.
On Seitenstettengasse at Schwedenplatz, a red exclamation mark with the inscription "Vienna - incident" was displayed in the Google map service.
The police had previously tweeted that shots had been fired right there around 8 p.m.
Helicopters are circling over the city center and there is a state of emergency in the late evening.
Videos broadcast by private broadcaster Oe24 on Monday evening showed a masked shooter who fired at least two shots in the street.
Another video showed a large pool of blood outside a restaurant.
Terror in Vienna: Citizens should avoid public places
The police called on citizens to avoid public places.
“We are working with all possible forces.
Please avoid all public places in the city area, "it said on Twitter.
It was also asked
not to upload any videos or photos
.
"DO NOT post videos and photos on social media, this endangers both emergency services and the civilian population!"
After the alleged terrorist attack, the
army
with
soldiers is
now also deployed in downtown Vienna
.
The Austrian
Armed Forces
have taken over the entire property protection in the capital, reported the news agency APA, citing the Chancellery.
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz spoke of a "disgusting terrorist attack".
+
Police officers check a person after the terrorist attack in Vienna.
© Georg Hochmuth / APA / dpa
The streets in the districts close to the city center emptied late in the evening, and isolated passers-by walk past at a faster pace.
A few more guests are sitting in front of a bar a few streets out of town, almost all of them are staring at their smartphones.
According to the police,
public transport stops
in the inner city of Vienna from time to time
.
"Stay safe, leave public places immediately," tweeted the police.
(dpa / lin) * Merkur.de is part of the Ippen digital editorial network.
List of rubric lists: © Georg Hochmuth / APA / dpa