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Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) is expected in Villach on Sunday and will give a press conference in front of the city police command in Tratengasse at 11.30 a.m. On Monday, Villach's pupils – if necessary – are to be looked after by a crisis intervention team, the city announced to ORF.
Started with a knife to several people
The crime had occurred near the main square on Saturday at 4:00 p.m. Police spokesman Rainer Dionisio said in an ORF Kärnten interview in the evening that the man had started with the knife indiscriminately on several passers-by. The 14 -year -old Villacher died.
A witness noticed the crime directly from his car. He was a 42 -year -old meal deliverer from Syria. He started the suspect with his car and probably prevented worse things, said Dionisio. The man was not injured.
According to the police, the alleged perpetrator, a Syrian citizen entitled to stay, was arrested shortly afterwards. According to initial information, he had not yet been conspicuous.
Syrian stabs 14-year-olds and violates other passers-by
A 23-year-old Syrian stabbed passers-by in Villach and killed a 14-year-old and was seriously injured. He was arrested. Little is known about the background.
Six seriously injured partly
In the evening, police spokesman Dionisio said that a sixth victim had to be complained about. A 36 -year -old man was also relatively easily injured. The other victims are four Austrian and an Iraqi national.
Police asks for clues
The police asks eyewine witnesses who have taken videos or photos of the crime or the environment or other perceptions to share them with the police via upload link.
The BMI also started an Apell that no photos or videos should be uploaded to the use on social networks. This protects the ongoing investigation, the victims and the emergency services, according to the Ministry of the Interior.
Which nationality the sixth victim belongs cannot yet be said. Some of the victims were seriously injured and had to be treated intensive medicine. It was also unclear whether there was a relationship between the perpetrator and the victims.
Large search in the entire city area
A large search was immediately triggered, in which the police helicopter and the Cobra operating unit were also involved. It was still unclear in the evening whether the 23-year-old Syrian was a single offender. The search was searched for. The first witnesses were also heard in the evening.
Dionisio: “We cannot rule out anything. We illuminate the environment and try to get information urgently to get a possible motive. At the moment you can only speculate, and as a police, we are not allowed to. So we have to wait for us to have secure information. “
The State Office of State Protection and Extremism Control took over the investigation together with the State Criminal Police Office. According to Dionisio, who has been in the police press service for 20 years and has been working for the executive for 35 years, there has been no comparable act in Carinthia.
Due to the mission, there were initially interruptions in train and bus traffic. The connections were recorded regularly in the late Saturday afternoon.
Rumors about further knife attack not confirmed
In the afternoon there was also a large police contingent in Villach-Langauen, where there is an asylum seekers' home. As the Federal Employment Agency (BBU GmbH) announced in a broadcast in the evening, the suspect was never housed in the relevant Villach facility. Only people are housed there whose asylum application has not yet been granted, BBU GmbH made it clear.
Messerstcher rammed drivers in the act
Rainer Dionisio (Carinthia police) reports of an injured sixth victim of the Syrian knife stab in Villach. A 14-year-old Austrian did not survive the attack, five other passers-by were seriously injured. Other victims could probably be prevented by a driver who drove down the Syrian and slightly injured.
Search for motive is running
According to Dionisio, there is still no knowledge that could lead to the motive of the crime. It must be clarified whether the crime has terrorist backgrounds or whether the alleged perpetrator had acted in a mental state.
Immediately after the crime there was also talk of another stabbing in Villach's city center. These are rumors that the police cannot confirm, says Dionisio.
Syrian stabs guys at the killing spree in Villach
On Saturday afternoon, a 23-year-old Syrian in downtown Villach stabbed several passers-by. He killed a 14-year-old and injured four other men in some cases before he was rammed and slightly injured by a Syrian meal deliverer. Then he was arrested.
There is great concern in Villach and beyond. The city set up a crisis staff. The carnival session in the city of the city, which should have taken place on Saturday evening, was canceled on the occasion.
Politicians are also affected across the parties and practiced violent criticism of the incident – more about this in reactions after a knife attack in Villach.