(Reuters) Austria arrested a 14-year-old on February 10 on suspicion of planning a militant attack on a Vienna train station, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday, calling the suspect an Islamic State supporter who became radicalised online.
The announcement follows a knife attack in the southern town of Villach on Saturday, in which a 23-year-old Syrian refugee is suspected of having killed a teenager and wounded five people. That man was rapidly radicalised after watching Islamist videos on TikTok, Austrian authorities have said.
“Domestic intelligence and the police have prevented a terrorist attack in Vienna,” the ministry said in a statement. “The suspect is 14 years old, an Austrian citizen with Turkish roots, and he became radicalised on the internet.”
