(AFP) The families of two of the victims of November’s jihadist attack in Vienna city centre are suing the Austrian state for compensation because of official failings, their lawyers said Tuesday.
Convicted Islamic State sympathiser Kujtim Fejzulai killed four people before being shot dead by police in the first major attack in Austria for decades and the first blamed on a jihadist.
One lawsuit on behalf of the mother of a 24-year-old German student shot dead by the attacker is being brought because “the Austrian authorities didn’t do everything in their power to prevent such an attack,” lawyer Norbert Wess told AFP.
An officially commissioned, independent report into security failures in the run-up to the attack recently found that there were several missed opportunities to act on warning signs about Fejzulai’s conduct.
