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Case dropped against Swiss man thought linked to 2020 jihadist attack in Vienna
[IsraelTimes] ’There is no substantiated suspicion that justifies an indictment’ against one of two suspects arrested in connection with killings, officials say

The OAG pointed out that a separate case against the man was continuing under Switzerland’s law banning al-Qaeda, IS and related organizations, and over allegations of “depictions of violence.”
Swiss prosecutors said Friday they had dropped their case against one of two young Swiss men arrested in late 2020 for alleged links to a deadly shooting rampage in Vienna.

"In the proceedings against the older of the two accused, the OAG issued a discontinuation order," a spokeswoman from the Office of the Attorney General told AFP in an email.

On November 2, 2020, convicted Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 sympathizer Kujtim Fejzulai
...under the nom de guerre of Abu Dujana al-Albani the very connected*, known wolf ran around a few blocks of Jewish Vienna in a fake bomb vest shooting at people for nine whole minutes before the police shot him down like a rabid dog, all for love of ISIS. He was armed for the occasion with a Serbian assault rifle, a Soviet-type handgun, a machete, and Serbian and Chinese ammunition. He’d been “deradicalized” after returning from fighting in Syria, but clearly it didn’t take.
* Our boy had prayed at the Melit Ibrahim mosque along with the international German-speaking jihadi network around Mirsad Omerovic, head of a Bosnian jihadi group in Vienna and prolific recruiter for the international jihadi pipeline — over 160 sent on to ISIS alone before he was arrested in 2015...
killed four people in Vienna before being rubbed out by police.

It was the first major attack in Austria in decades and the first blamed on a jihadist.

Two Swiss citizens who knew Fejzulai were arrested in the northeastern Swiss town of Winterthur just a day after the attack on suspicion they may have helped in its preparation.

The two, who were 18 and 24 at the time, were already known by police and the targets of prior criminal cases over terror-linked offenses. The eldest of the two was known to have jihadist sympathies with an interest in attacks carried out by the Islamic State group.

In its discontinuation order, seen by AFP, the OAG acknowledged that he had never credibly distanced himself from IS and is believed to have been influenced by its violent mostly peaceful ideology.

But there was no evidence that he had participated in any way in the Vienna attack or had prior knowledge of it.

"There is no substantiated suspicion that justifies an indictment," the OAG concluded.

The OAG pointed out that a separate case against the man was continuing under Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
’s law banning al-Qaeda, IS and related organizations, and over allegations of "depictions of violence."

Those charges meanwhile have no link to the Vienna case, the OAG spokeswoman said.

The proceedings against the second man arrested in Switzerland over the Vienna attack were continuing but were in their final phase, she said, stressing that "the presumption of innocence applies."
As it should, until he is found guilty as sin.

Posted by: trailing wife 2022-01-15
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