Three young men aged 14 to 20 of Bosnian and Chechen origin were arrested by the police. Weapons were seized from their home.
Austrian police have arrested three youths, including a 14-year-old, on suspicion of planning an attack on the Pride Parade in Vienna which drew hundreds of thousands of people, it has been reported. learned this Sunday from official sources.
Suspected of being IS sympathizers
The three men, aged 14, 17 and 20 and suspected of being sympathizers of the jihadist organization Islamic State (IS), were arrested before the start of the parade, according to the head of the Austrian intelligence agency , Omar Haijawi-Pirchner.
The latter clarified that no threat had weighed on those who participated in this Pride March in the center of Vienna on Saturday.
“They shared extremist content on the internet. In this context, the suspects focused on the Pride Parade as a potential target,” the Home Office said in a statement.
weapons seized
During arrests on Saturday, the authorities discovered weapons and other evidence against these three Austrians of Chechen and Bosnian origin.
One of them was already known to the police. They had planned to use “bladed weapons or vehicles” during the parade, police told reporters.
Some 300,000 people took part in this parade for the rights of LGBT+ people.
Source: BFM TV
