A terrorist attack in Austria was thwarted

– International news – Tasnim news agency According to Germany’s “NTV”, the police of the city of Graz, Austria, arrested a 14-year-old girl who is said to have planned arrested a “terrorist knife attack” in the center of the city.

The Styria state police department announced that “items prepared for the crime as well as related promotional materials”, including weapons and promotional materials from Daesh militants captured this young girl. Detectives tracked down the 14-year-old by monitoring the chats.

Police also said information from a European security official initially led investigators from the government’s Office of State Security and Countering Extremism (LSE) to the discovery. and neutralization of this terrorist attack that was supposed to be carried out by this teenager from Montenegro. The 14-year-old girl had already prepared weapons for her attack – a machete and a knife – as well as clothes for the crime. He sent pictures of the devices to potential “like-minded people” abroad via messaging services.

Police said the attack was aimed at describing the teenager as an “infidel”. During the search of this girl’s house, the intended murder weapon and several data storage devices were discovered and confiscated. During the initial inspection, it was found that this 14-year-old boy had collected various ISIS propaganda materials as well as numerous videos of fighting and executions. The investigation in this field is still ongoing. Apparently, this 14-year-old girl did not confess during the interrogation in the presence of her legal guardian and defense lawyer. After the approval of the court, the public prosecutor of Graz ordered the arrest and transfer of this 14-year-old to the correctional center. The girl was placed in temporary custody due to the risk of committing a crime and the risk of hiding.

In its statement, the police pointed to the “obvious tendency towards extremism in the digital space. In this statement, it is said: the youth “to They are particularly vulnerable to this type of extremist propaganda.” According to the Austrian news agency APA, Gerhard Karner, the Minister of the Interior of Austria, said in the same vein: the Office for the Protection of the Constitution is taking persistent measures against all kinds of extremism. This is how an extremist terrorist attack was prevented in Graz.

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