According to the Austrian authorities, a complaint was made against him last year for participation in a terrorist organization, but he was not considered a “high risk threat”.
The perpetrator of the attack against police officers in Munich was known to the Austrian authorities as a possible Islamist, who had even banned him from carrying weapons, but not to the German security authorities.
18-year-old Emra I., who was born in Austria and held a German passport, was of Bosnian origin and had previously lived in the Salzburg area. Last year, after a conflict at school, where he reportedly stood out as a particularly strict Muslim, he was charged with membership in a terrorist organization and spreading Islamic State propaganda. Authorities had then also searched his mobile phone, on which jihadi visual material was found, but the case was dropped in April 2023 and he was only banned from carrying weapons until 2028. According to the Austrian News Agency ARA, he had not been considered “ high risk threat”.
During the search of his home by the State Service for the Protection of the Constitution and the Fight against Terrorism (LVT), material indicating Islamist sentiments was found. The Austrian authorities even considered that he was spreading propaganda in favor of the terrorist organization HST of Syria, while it became known that the family of the attacker comes from Tuzla, in the north-east of Bosnia.
As the Austrian public television ORF reported, the Syrian security authorities are in close communication with their German counterparts, who had warned for months about an escalation of Islamist violence in Europe after the Hamas attack on Israel.
Source :Skai
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