Letter to the minister
IS attack announced: “A bit of fun, haha”
His threatening letter to Justice Minister Anna Sporrer earned a 24-year-old Viennese man a harsher sentence than some "real" terror fanatics. "I thought they would look at it and throw it away." Far from it!
In March, the 24-year-old wrote a handwritten letter to Justice Minister Anna Sporrer: "In it, he threatened to carry out a bomb attack together with Chechens in the name of IS," said the public prosecutor in Landl. The investigators had the letter forensically examined and came across the young man with a criminal record, who pleaded guilty.
Scope completely underestimated
He had consumed a lot of cannabis and had arguments with his girlfriend, he says: "I couldn't think clearly at all. It wasn't until I was in custody that I realized it was nonsense." - "What did you think would happen if you announced an IS bomb attack?" asks the prosecutor. "I thought they'd look at it and throw it away. A little joke, haha. I never thought it would be taken so seriously."
I couldn't think straight at all. It wasn't until I was in custody that I realized it was nonsense.
Der angeklagte junge Mann im Wiener Landl
But of course it was. On his first day in his new job, of all days, the Viennese was arrested: "I'm ashamed of it. My stupidity has ruined my path." - "Is something in the letter true?" a juror wants to know. "No. I have nothing to do with it." Rather, the motive was probably outstanding administrative fines and stress with the police.
"You are certainly not a terrorist," the public prosecutor is also convinced in his closing statement, "but please never do such nonsense again. A huge amount of state resources were needed for a non-terrorist case."
Please don't ever make such nonsense again. A huge amount of state resources were needed for a non-terror case.
Staatsanwalt im Schlussplädoyer
Judge speaks of "huge terror problem"
The jury sentences the man to 18 months for forcing land and faking a punishable offense: "We have a huge terror problem. This is no joke," said Judge Alfred Hebenstreit-Weinauer, citing general preventive reasons for the unconditional prison sentence. It was far more severe than for many a "real" IS fanatic.
For example, the 18-year-old who tried to attack people with a knife at the main railway station was given two years in prison - only eight months of which were unconditional. As is well known, he quickly relapsed.
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