How the 21-year-old managed to get a
job in the security service in the largest vaccination and test center
in the federal capital as a legally convicted ex-IS terrorist with three
other relevant previous convictions seemed worth questioning, not only
to the public prosecutor .
His past life should obviously not have
been adequately checked by the company that employed him ā it was
neither the Austria Center Vienna nor the Arbeiter Samariter Bund Wien
(ASBW) as a vaccination and test road operator, as research by the APA
showed.
What is certain is that the man was sentenced in June 2017
in Vienna to two and a half years in prison, ten months of which were
unconditional, for being part of a terrorist organization and criminal
organization. A not inconsiderable degree of punishment for a young
person ā he was 17 at the time. According to the verdict, he had joined
the radical Islamist terrorist militia āIslamic Stateā (IS) at the end
of May 2016 and wanted to undergo combat training in a terrorist camp in
Syria.
However, he was apprehended by the Turkish authorities in
the southern Anatolian border town of Gaziantep, prevented from
continuing his journey and sent back to Austria. Back in Vienna in July
2016, he approached eleven and twelve-year-old boys in a park and tried
to recruit them for IS.
After serving his unconditional part of
the sentence, the young man was no longer conspicuous for committing
terrorist offenses. However, he continued to commit crimes, most
recently being convicted of intentionally causing serious bodily harm.
On
January 5, working as a security guard at the Austria Center, he met an
employee on Impfstrasse with whom he made an appointment to meet after
work. They met in the city, went to a fast food restaurant for something
to eat and then, according to the indictment, went to a hotel at his
urging. As the prosecutor explained, the woman is said to have been very
intimidated by the tall, strong and dominant man at this point.
So
she went to bed and pretended to sleep while he took a shower. When he
came back from the bathroom, he told her to undress, counting to ten and
repeatedly raped her despite crying and begging her to stop.
The
accused, who was brought into the courtroom by a heavily armed special
task force from the prison guard because of his terrorist past, denied
this. He got along very well with the woman: āShe went with me, I didnāt
ask her at all.ā In the hotel, while watching TV together in bed, she
put her head on his chest, stroked him, and asked if he wanted to sleep
with her.
He said yes: āIām a man. When she said she didnāt want any
more, I stopped immediately.ā
