Intelligence knew the assailant was planning to purchase ammunition

Intelligence knew. The Austrian Interior Minister announced on Wednesday that the Austrian intelligence services (BVT) had been informed by Slovakia of a plan to purchase ammunition by the perpetrator of the attack which killed four people on Monday evening in Vienna.

“In the last few hours, information has emerged showing that some time before the terrorist attack, the Slovak secret services had informed the BVT about the assailant. They had indicated that he wanted to get ammunition, ”Karl Nehammer said at a press conference.

Former far-right interior minister accused

Faced with this flaw in the Austrian intelligence system, the Minister of the Interior blamed his far-right predecessor, accusing him of having seriously harmed the intelligence services (BVT) by his action. “My predecessor Herbert Kickl caused lasting damage, not to say that he destroyed the BVT,” Karl Nehammer told reporters.