Vienna honors victims of terror attack 1 year later Austrian leaders have taken part in a memorial service to remember the people killed during a shooting spree in central Vienna in 2020. Criticism remains over the government's actions in the run-up to the violence.

(Deutsche Welle) Vienna marked one year on Tuesday since a deadly terror attack that left four people dead.

On November 2, 2020, a sympathizer of the so-called Islamic State (IS) group shot and killed four people in the Austrian capital before he himself was shot dead by police.

“This city is strong,” Mayor Michael Ludwig said, speaking at the city’s historic central Desider-Friedmann-Platz, where some of the shootings took place.

He went on to say that Vienna would “not be brought to its knees — not from cowardly terrorism, not from people who think that they can endanger our democratic values.”

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