Summarizing what was learnt the past 2 days (see Day 1 here, Day 2 here): The shooter is a Bosnian-Austrian named Emra I. or Emrah I., born in 2006, age 18. He lived in Neumarkt am Wallersee, Salzburg with his parents, and had been investigated by the police last year for connections to ISIS and radical Islam due to his interest in ISIS, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham/Al Nusra, weapons, and explosives; while the investigation was dropped, he was banned from having a gun until 2028. He had become a loner during the Covid lockdown, prompting his concerned parents to try to find him psychological help. On Wednesday he bought an old Swiss army Karabiner Modell 1931, 50 rounds of ammunition, and a bayonet form a seller in Vienna. He drove over from Salzburg Thursday morning before shooting at a museum of the Nazi era, a university building, and the Israeli consulate, but within a minute after that last was gunned down most effectively by the police.
There is a large and aggressive radical Islam scene in Austria, particularly around Austrian-born ISIS big turban Mohamed Mahmoud, who died in an air raid on an ISIS prison in Syria in 2018, but it connects to the Balkans and Chechnya rather than the Middle East.
[IsraelTimes] Investigators seized electronic devices at the home of a young Austrian who fired shots near Israel’s Munich consulate, but found no weapons or Islamic StateThere is a large and aggressive radical Islam scene in Austria, particularly around Austrian-born ISIS big turban Mohamed Mahmoud, who died in an air raid on an ISIS prison in Syria in 2018, but it connects to the Balkans and Chechnya rather than the Middle East.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
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group propaganda material, authorities say.
German police rubbed out the 18-year-old man yesterday when he fired a vintage rifle at them near the diplomatic building.
They say they are treating it as a "terrorist attack," apparently timed to coincide with the anniversary of the murders of Israeli athletes in a Paleostinian terror attack at the 1972 Olympic Games.
Authorities raided the gunman’s home in the Salzburg region, seizing electronic data carriers, Austria’s top security chief Franz Ruf tells a presser in Vienna.
During the raid, "no weapons or IS propaganda" material was found, Ruf adds.
Despite being subject to a ban on owning and carrying weapons, the man managed to purchase a vintage carbine rifle fitted with a bayonet with around "fifty rounds of ammunition" for 400 euros ($445) the day before the attack, Ruf says.
At a separate presser in Munich, prosecutor Gabriele Tilmann says Sherlocks are combing through the gunman’s electronic data but have yet to find conclusive evidence of his motive.
But the "working hypothesis" was that "the perpetrator acted out of Islamist or antisemitic motivation," she tells news hounds.
| Another Times of Israel article adds: |
In one of them the suspect had used an avatar with a flag of the “al-Nusra Front,” a jihadist group active in Syria, said Ruf.
| …which could be meaningful or just be the result of a search for “Muslim flag” |
“The mere playing of a computer game or the re-enactment of violent Islamist scenes was not sufficient to prove intent to commit the offense,” they clarified.
| Per European Conservative in comments, below: The jihadi’s full name is Emrah Ibrahimovic. |