VIENNA:Â Austrian police have arrested 14 people in raids linked to Monday's deadly attack in Vienna and have found no evidence that a second shooter was involved, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said Tuesday.
"There have been 18 raids in Vienna and Lower Austria and 14 people have been detained," Nehammer told a televised press conference.
The minister added that police believe that the attack in central Vienna was carried out by a lone gunman, Kujtim Fejzulai, a 20-year-old Daesh sympathiser who was killed by police on Monday night.
The video material evaluated by the police "does not at this time show any evidence of a second attacker," Nehammer said.
Fejzulai, a dual Austrian and Macedonian national, was convicted of a terror offence in April last year for trying to travel to Syria.
Nehammer said he had been on a de-radicalisation programme and had managed to secure an early release.
"The perpetrator managed to fool the de-radicalisation programme of the justice system, to fool the people in it, and to get an early release through this," the minister said.
Austria police detain 14, give new details on Vienna killer
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Updated 03 November 2020
Austria police detain 14, give new details on Vienna killer
- Fejzulai, a dual Austrian and Macedonian national, was previously convicted of a terror offence for trying to travel to Syria
- Nehammer said he had been on a de-radicalisation programme and had managed to secure an early release
