New details about the perpetrator

Terror mania: “It could have happened to anyone!”

The Villach attacker is said to have stabbed the six victims aimlessly. He is in solitary confinement in Klagenfurt prison.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/Kerstin Wassermann, SVS News Agency)

Why did a 14-year-old schoolboy become the first victim of the terrorist attack in Villach? How did 23-year-old Ahmad G. choose the people he wanted to attack and kill with a knife? During his first interrogation, the Syrian revealed deep insights into his sick mental world - since then he has remained silent.

"The investigation is of course running at full speed," says Markus Kitz, spokesman for the public prosecutor's office in Klagenfurt, explaining how the act of terrorism in Villach is being investigated by the authorities around the clock. It is currently assumed that it was a single perpetrator.

As reported, however, a lot of video footage still needs to be analyzed in order to trace the attack on the internet - the data is in Arabic, which makes the work more difficult.