Austria, the trial of the alleged accomplices of the bomber in the 2020 shooting begins
There was great anticipation in Vienna for the start of one of the most anticipated trials of the past two years. Six men in the dock for alleged links with a sympathizer of the self-proclaimed Islamic State who was responsible for a shooting in the streets of the Austrian capital in 2020. An attack that had caused four deaths and more than 20 injuries.
The assailant was shot dead by the agents. Now the lawyers of all six defendants are sending a common message. Manfred Arbacher-StoegerDefense attorney says that “They were all friends of the aggressor. But they all plead not guilty. They never contributed to the attack either physically or mentally. They are accused only because they belong to a certain religious faith. But they are not guilty. “
According to the trial man accumulated instead the six destined to continue Fejzulai, the bomber, while preparing the shooting. Now they risk being accused of participating in “terrorist crimes”.
The sentence is expected in February next year. Until then, ten of testimonies collected to clarify what happened that fateful night of November 2, 2020 when a man of radical Islam, on the streets of Vienna, fired a rifle at unsuspecting citizens crossed by chance. Many question marks such as the role played by the six alleged accomplices of him.