(AFP) The fallout from last November’s shootings on the streets of Vienna has shone a light on Europe’s dilemma in dealing with jihadists, particularly the continent’s struggles to deradicalise such individuals.
An Austrian court had in 2019 already convicted Kujtim Fejzulai, the 20-year-old gunman, of trying to travel to Syria and join the so-called Islamic State (IS) group.
A condition of his early release from prison was that he attend regular sessions with an organisation called DERAD, which offers deradicalisation programmes.
But on November 2, Fejzulai went on a shooting spree in the streets of Vienna, killing four people before police shot him dead.
