In the South Austrian city of Fillah, a 23-year-old asylum of Syria’s shelter killed a 14-year-old boy with a knife. Four more people are injured.
The Austrian newspaper Kurier, referring to eyewitnesses, says that the incident occurred in the city center: the man suddenly got out of the car and attacked the passers -by with a knife. To stop the bloodshed, a 42-year-old Syrian working in a courier company faced the attacker and knocked him down his car.
Publication CNN Greece, referring to the data of the Austrian police, WritesThat the boy died, and four more were injured. The criminal is arrested.
According to initial information, he had a residence permit, and earlier he did not cause concern among the authorities. The representative of the Rainer Dionisio said that in the video from surveillance cameras the criminal appears to the laughing (photo above):
“For 20 years of service, I have never seen anything like it. This is an unprecedented crime for the Carinthia region. ”
Nothing is known about the motives of the attack. The investigation of the police to combat extremism joined the investigation, ORF reports. The attack occurred two days after the asylum applicant in neighboring Germany I drove into a car in the center of Munich. About 30 people were injured; On Saturday, two of them, a woman and her two -year -old daughter, died in a hospital.
Both in Germany and in Austria, immigration is a splitting theme that warms up interest in society to the ultra -right parties. In Germany, the Alternative for Germany party, according to surveys, in the elections that will be held on February 23, can receive about 20% of the vote.
And here is another inadequate, this time not a migrant: a teenager with a knife attacked a 5-year-old child in an elevator in Astana.
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