German police have raided the homes of two possible accomplices of the extremist who went on a deadly shooting rampage in Vienna last November.
It is alleged that the two men, identified only as Kosovan citizen Blinor S and Drilon G, from Germany, may have known about gunman Kujtim Fejzulai’s plans.
They are suspected of having failed to inform the authorities, instead erasing material on their mobile phones and social media accounts to cover up their connections to the killer.
Four people died in the attack on November 2. Twenty others, including a police officer, were wounded. The gunman was shot dead by police.
Fejzulai, a dual citizen of Austria and North Macedonia, had a previous conviction for trying to join ISIS in Syria.
Prosecutors did not say whether the pair whose homes were raided on Wednesday had been arrested.
They accused the two of being extremists who had been in close contact with Fejzulai on social media.
They visited him in Vienna for several days in July last year, shortly after he acquired the weapon he used in the attack. They also met other radicals from Austria and Switzerland, prosecutors said.
The prosecutors said that because of their “close personal relationship” with Fejzulai and their own radical views, both men knew by the time the visit was over that it was possible he would act on his intentions to carry out an attack.
They said that the pair started erasing material linking them to the assailant on the evening of the attack.
