(AFP) Eight of those detained following Monday night’s terrorist attack in Vienna had previous convictions, including for terror offences, the Austrian interior minister said Thursday, as the investigation extended to Switzerland and a second, unnamed country.
In the wake of the attack in which an Austrian-born man shot and killed four people in a popular nightlife area of central Vienna on Monday night, police arrested a total of 16 men.
Four of them had been convicted for terrorism-related offences, two for violent crime offences, and two for an attempted “honour killing,” Interior Minister Karl Nehammer told a press conference Thursday.
“We have had intensive cooperation with the FBI,” which provided Austrian authorities with “valuable information,” Nehammer added, without giving further details.
