VIENNA, Nov 7 (NNN-EFE) — The Austrian government on Friday ordered the closure of two mosques in Vienna where the perpetrator of Monday’s attack which left four people dead and more than 20 wounded is believed to have been radicalized.
The government announced the closures after agreeing to the measure with the Muslim Community of Austria (IGGÖ), the biggest Muslim association in the country and which manages one of the mosques.
“These are religious centers that attack our values and we cannot allow that,” Austrian minister of integration, Susanne Raab, said at a press conference.
The Daesh militant group claimed responsibility for the deadly shooting rampage in Vienna, as Austria mourned the victims of its first major terror attack in decades.
Four people were killed when Kujtim Fejzulai, described as a 20-year-old Daesh sympathiser who had spent time in prison, opened fire with a Kalashnikov in a busy area of the Austrian capital on Monday evening, the day before the country went into a new coronavirus lockdown.
The Daesh group – which has claimed numerous attacks in Europe – said a “soldier of the caliphate” was responsible for the carnage in Vienna, according to its propaganda agency.
Police shot the gunman dead on Monday and later swooped on 18 different addresses and made 14 arrests as they looked for possible accomplices and sought to determine if he had acted alone. — NNN-EFE