We Are Vienna!
Twelve days after the Islamic terrorist attack in downtown Vienna. It occurred in the vicinity of the Jewish City Temple and the Ruprechtskirche, the oldest church of Vienna, whose reflection you can see in the picture on the left. They are located in the so-called "Bermudadreieck" ("Bermuda Triangle"), a very popular nightlife district.
At 8 pm of November 2 a lone gunman, who was identified later as a 20-year old a dual citizen of Austria and North Macedonia of Albanian ethnic origin and IS sympathizer born in Austria, started shooting at people here. At that time the nigthtlife district was crowded with people enjoying a very mild last evening before new COVID-19 restrictions with restaurants, pubs and bars having to close came into force. When he was shot dead by the police nine minutes later, he had killed four persons and injured 23 others.
Among the four civilians killed was "a 21-year-old Muslim Austrian man originally from North Macedonia" like the perpetrator himself. The other victims were an Austrian woman, a man of Chinese origin and a young German student who was working as a waitress in a bar. Injured people are citizens from Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China and Luxembourg.
Three heroes were praised for their actions: a Palestinian and two Turkish-Austrian men, who saved a wounded officer and an elderly woman by carrying them into safe places and to ambulances while the shooting was going on.
People living in Vienna stick together! We are Vienna!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Vienna_attack de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terroranschlag_in_Wien_2020
I took this picture the day when a new and harder
lockdown with a 24 hours curfew was announced by the government. It will enter into force on Tuesday.
We Are Vienna!
Twelve days after the Islamic terrorist attack in downtown Vienna. It occurred in the vicinity of the Jewish City Temple and the Ruprechtskirche, the oldest church of Vienna, whose reflection you can see in the picture on the left. They are located in the so-called "Bermudadreieck" ("Bermuda Triangle"), a very popular nightlife district.
At 8 pm of November 2 a lone gunman, who was identified later as a 20-year old a dual citizen of Austria and North Macedonia of Albanian ethnic origin and IS sympathizer born in Austria, started shooting at people here. At that time the nigthtlife district was crowded with people enjoying a very mild last evening before new COVID-19 restrictions with restaurants, pubs and bars having to close came into force. When he was shot dead by the police nine minutes later, he had killed four persons and injured 23 others.
Among the four civilians killed was "a 21-year-old Muslim Austrian man originally from North Macedonia" like the perpetrator himself. The other victims were an Austrian woman, a man of Chinese origin and a young German student who was working as a waitress in a bar. Injured people are citizens from Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China and Luxembourg.
Three heroes were praised for their actions: a Palestinian and two Turkish-Austrian men, who saved a wounded officer and an elderly woman by carrying them into safe places and to ambulances while the shooting was going on.
People living in Vienna stick together! We are Vienna!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Vienna_attack de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terroranschlag_in_Wien_2020
I took this picture the day when a new and harder
lockdown with a 24 hours curfew was announced by the government. It will enter into force on Tuesday.