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He is said to have campaigned for an IS supporter and translated Islamist hate sermons and lectures into German. He is even said to have moved into the immediate vicinity of the Vienna assassin Kujtim F. Now he’s on trial. Explosive: The man of Turkish origin completed an acting training course and appeared on Viennese theater stages.
On Wednesday, a suspected Islamist pleaded “not guilty” eloquently and articulately in front of a jury at the Vienna Regional Court on charges of terrorist organization and terrorist financing. The confident appearance of the 30-year-old was no accident. The alleged terrorist is completing an acting training course and has already appeared on two Viennese theater stages in the past.
Chats with IS supporters
The man with Turkish roots is accused of having participated in an attempt to make the Kurdish Salafist and IS supporter Halis Bayancuk, alias Ebu Hanzala, better known in German-speaking countries by translating and distributing his sermons, lectures and flyers into German. He is also said to have collected donations for the survivors of fallen fighters of the radical Islamist terrorist militia “Islamic State” (IS).
In addition, in 2018 the defendant had contact with the immediate environment of the later assassin from Vienna, who shot four people in downtown Vienna on November 2, 2020. According to the indictment, in the spring and summer of 2018, he chatted intensively with the IS supporter with whom the later assassin set out for Syria in the autumn of the same year to join the IS. However, the two were picked up in Turkey in autumn 2018, arrested, sent back to Austria and sentenced in 2019.
Knew the assassin
The defendant did not deny the chat, but stressed that he had not encouraged the Foreign Terrorist Fighters in their travel plans. The alleged psychological contribution to the crime did not take place, the two would have left without him. He said he knew the two of them – that is, the later assassin – “from the street, from distributing flyers.” He “met the assassin on the street in 2017, 2018,” but only superficially. With his travel companion – he has been in custody as a possible confidante or accomplice since the terrorist attack – he had “had contact about five times a year.” (APA)
He is said to have campaigned for an IS supporter and translated Islamist hate sermons and lectures into German. He is even said to have moved into the immediate vicinity of the Vienna assassin Kujtim F. Now he’s on trial. Explosive: The man of Turkish origin completed an acting training course and appeared on Viennese theater stages.
On Wednesday, a suspected Islamist pleaded “not guilty” eloquently and articulately in front of a jury at the Vienna Regional Court on charges of terrorist organization and terrorist financing. The confident appearance of the 30-year-old was no accident. The alleged terrorist is completing an acting training course and has already appeared on two Viennese theater stages in the past.
Chats with IS supporters
The man with Turkish roots is accused of having participated in an attempt to make the Kurdish Salafist and IS supporter Halis Bayancuk, alias Ebu Hanzala, better known in German-speaking countries by translating and distributing his sermons, lectures and flyers into German. He is also said to have collected donations for the survivors of fallen fighters of the radical Islamist terrorist militia “Islamic State” (IS).
In addition, in 2018 the defendant had contact with the immediate environment of the later assassin from Vienna, who shot four people in downtown Vienna on November 2, 2020. According to the indictment, in the spring and summer of 2018, he chatted intensively with the IS supporter with whom the later assassin set out for Syria in the autumn of the same year to join the IS. However, the two were picked up in Turkey in autumn 2018, arrested, sent back to Austria and sentenced in 2019.
Knew the assassin
The defendant did not deny the chat, but stressed that he had not encouraged the Foreign Terrorist Fighters in their travel plans. The alleged psychological contribution to the crime did not take place, the two would have left without him. He said he knew the two of them – that is, the later assassin – “from the street, from distributing flyers.” He “met the assassin on the street in 2017, 2018,” but only superficially. With his travel companion – he has been in custody as a possible confidante or accomplice since the terrorist attack – he had “had contact about five times a year.” (APA)
