In the early morning of October 29th, 21-year-old Tunisian citizen Brahim Aouissaoui entered the Notre-Dame Cathedral on Avenue Jean Medecin in Nice, stabbed three people to death, and partially beheaded one of them, an elderly woman. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Vienna
Terror in Vienna: a risk assessment perspective – by Jörg Peschak
On the night before the second lockdown on November 2nd, 2020 at 8 pm, Austria’s capital was hit by a terrorist attack. On the macrolevel, it is the latest of a series of events that began in France with the republication of the caricatures of Charly Hebdo followed by the beheading of a teacher for showing the caricatures and an attack on people at the cathedral in Nice. Now the scene moved to Vienna. But why Austria? Could it have been prevented? Continue reading