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that other people may have been involved in the attack. A police spokesman said, that the soldier was only saved by a stab-proof vest: "They started a fight because the aggressor was too close and the soldier shot him at least four times with his handgun." The attacker’s home was searched and his internet activities were reviewed.
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frustration about his life situation. The 67-year-old father received life-threatening injuries, the 56-year-old wife and the 17-year-old daughter were seriously injured. The suspect said that he committed the attack on the second man, a 20-year-old, because he made him responsible for his drug addiction.
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On 11:30pm on 11 March 2018, an
Austrian soldier was attacked with a knife in front of the Iranian embassy in Vienna which he guarded. The soldier was stabbed repeatedly and injured. The attacker was shot dead. Security was stepped up at diplomatic missions across the city, because the police feared
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magazine, the
Afghanistan expert Sarajuddin Rasuly stated on the Leopoldstadt case: "Some refugees from Afghanistan came as criminals or became it during their journey. Between Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey they went stealing or trafficking for the smugglers. Some young men were even raped by
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On 10 March, media reported that the suspect had already been convicted of drug trafficking in 2016 and obtained three months of conditional detention. That was confirmed by the police. The day before, the authorities had confirmed that the man had been in prison from August to
December 2017 - also
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Austrian Interior Minister Herbert Kickl announced that Austria will change its asylum policy because of the incidents in the recent days, saying: "We need courageous approaches... The current asylum law no longer meets the demands of a globalized world." The Austrian government
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Leopoldstadt case: "It is clear that many mistakes have been made in recent years in the migration and asylum policy. Unlimited migration is the cause of many problems we are currently facing. Therefore, the new Federal Government wants to fix these mistakes of the past years."
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Although initially unclear if the two incidents were connected, the arrested 23-year-old man admitted attacking the family earlier in the night, yet he claimed that the attacks were not politically motivated. The suspect allegedly attacked the family because of his "bad, aggressive mood" and
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The perpetrator was a 26-year-old
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