Austrian Authorities Now Saying Suspect in Fatal Mass Stabbing Motivated by ‘Islamic Terror’
Austria’s right-wing leader, Herbert Kickl, whose party won a national election four months ago, calls for ‘a rigorous crackdown on asylum’ in the wake of the attack.
Austrian authorities say the stabbing of six passersby that left a 14-year-old boy dead was carried out by a man with possible connections to the Islamic State group who appeared to have acted alone and motivated by radical Islamic ideology.
The suspect, a 23-year-old Syrian, was arrested after the attack in the southern city of Villach on Saturday. Five others were wounded, two of them seriously.
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