The terrorist attack in the Austrian capital Vienna shakes the world.
A former DFB player was there and reports on his bad experiences.
A terrorist attack occurred in Vienna on November 2nd.
A former German international was also there with his family.
He describes his shocking impressions.
Vienna -
Austria's Chancellor Sebastian
Kurz
spoke of
a “heinous act” and an “attack on the freedom and democracy of the Republic of
Austria
”
in connection with the
terrorist attack
in the capital
Vienna
.
A 20-year-old had on Monday evening in a nightlife district in the immediate vicinity of a
synagogue *
shot around.
At least four people were killed - more than a dozen more were injured.
Terror in Vienna: Ex-national player with family "right in the middle"
The Vienna Bermuda Triangle, in which there are many restaurants, was full on the evening of November 2nd.
A day before the
Corona *
-
curfew
took effect, apparently many people wanted to go out again.
Apparently the same thing happened to the former German international Patrick Helmes.
On Monday evening he was
in a restaurant on
Schwedenplatz
with his
wife
and
children
.
He
confirmed to
the Cologne
Express
:
“We were right in the middle”.
Terrorist attack in Vienna: Patrick Helmes describes panic in a restaurant
The kicker had only recently moved with his family from Cologne to Vienna - where he took a new job in a football club.
According to the report, it was even the first trip to their new home in Vienna for Helmes' wife.
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The then Cologne player Patrick Helmes in 2014. (Archive)
© Rolf Vennenbernd / dpa
The family witnessed the attack up close:
“We were only 100 meters away,” says Patrick Helmes.
Gunshots were
heard in
front of the restaurant
- then passers-by stormed into the restaurant to seek protection.
There was
panic
, according to the former kicker:
people cried, screamed and hid under tables.
Finally, masked officers of a special unit entered the restaurant to secure it.
Helmes, who was on site with his wife, his two-year-old daughter and a six-month-old baby, describes the situation to the newspaper as follows: “
That was an absolutely exceptional and stressful situation with pictures of people in fear of death that you cannot want to see."
The family had to stay in the restaurant until two in the morning.
Then you were escorted to a car by a special unit and could drive home.
The processing of the experiences would certainly take a long time, said Helmes to the
Express
.
(rjs) * merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editorial network.