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Austrian Citizen in Custody for Knife Attack in Mecca
Lifestyle & Travel ♦
Published: January 28, 2025; 20:43 ♦ (Vindobona)
Saudi Arabia confirms the arrest of a 20-year-old Austrian from the district of Bruck an der Leitha — the charge: a knife attack in front of the holy Al-Haram mosque in Mecca. But the story goes further - to foiled plans to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna.
An Austrian man in Saudi Arabia has been detained for over ten months for allegedly supporting the Islamic State in an attack on the Al-Haram Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons; Saudipics.com, CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en)
A young man from Lower Austria has been in custody in Saudi Arabia for over ten months, as reported by ORF. The Saudi authorities accuse Hasan E. , the then 19-year-old of carrying out a knife attack in front of the Al-Haram mosque in Mecca on March 11, 2024, at the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan. Five people were…
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