(AFP) Austria’s intelligence agencies missed several chances to spot the danger posed by a jihadist [gunman] who launched a deadly attack in Vienna in November, an official report said on Wednesday.
The report is the first from a government commission assessing how the threat was handled in the run-up to the November 2 attack, in which four people were killed before the gunman was shot dead by police.
The partially redacted document says a threat assessment of the attacker took until October this year to be finalised after his release from prison in December 2019.
The assessment eventually found that he posed a “high risk.”
The report concluded that “the fact that an initial assessment took almost 10 months seems unacceptable.”
