Suspected Terrorist from Austria: Investigation into Mecca Attack Raises Questions

PeopleOther ♦ Published: February 2, 2025; 22:46 ♦ (Vindobona)

The Directorate of State Security and Intelligence (DSN) has announced that no suspicious data was found on the seized laptop belonging to Hasan E., a 20-year-old from Lower Austria who allegedly carried out a terrorist attack in Mecca in March 2024. At the same time, the authorities rejected accusations that errors were made in the investigation.

Neither suspicious nor incriminating materials were found in the laptop seized from the suspect allegedly responsible for the March 2024 terror attack in Mecca for religious-ideological reasons and who has been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia ever since. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons; Saudipics.com, CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en)

Hasan E., a young man from the district of Bruck an der Leitha, is suspected of having carried out a knife attack on five people in the area of the Al-Haram mosque in Mecca on March 11, 2024, for religious-ideological motives, as reported by Vindobona.org. Some of the…