Saudi Arabia’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel Al Jubeir said on Twitter on Tuesday that the Vienna attack was a heinous crime contrary to all religions and human values.
“We share with friends in the Republic of Austria the sorrow of the terrorist crime that targeted innocent people in Vienna. This heinous crime and its likes are contrary to all religions and human values, and it emphasises to us that terrorism has no religion or race,” Mr Al Jubeir said.
On Tuesday, Austrian investigators were piecing together the Monday-evening rampage through central Vienna by a lone gunman, later claimed by ISIS.
Four people were murdered when Kujtim Fejzulai, described as a 20-year-old ISIS sympathiser who had spent time in prison, opened fire with a Kalashnikov in a busy area of the Austrian capital the day before the country went into a new coronavirus lockdown.
ISIS – which has claimed numerous attacks in Europe – said on Tuesday a “soldier of the caliphate” was responsible for the carnage, according to its propaganda agency.
Police shot and killed the gunman on Monday and later swooped on 18 addresses and made 14 arrests as they looked for possible accomplices and sought to determine whether he had acted alone.
After reviewing CCTV footage of the attack in an area teeming with bars and restaurants not far from the historic sights of central Vienna, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said the video does not show any evidence of a second attacker.
Vienna police have asked people who filmed moments of the attack to share their recordings with the authorities to help them trace the gunman’s route through the capital, rather than posting them on social media.
