German police say they are raiding apartments and offices over possible links to the Austrian Islamic State sympathizer who went on a deadly gun rampage in central Vienna.
The sites in Osnabrueck, Kassel as well as in the Pinneberg area that were searched belong to four people, who “are not believed to be involved in the attack,” says the federal criminal agency (BKA).
“But there may be links to the alleged assassin,” it adds on Twitter.
The searches are being carried out on a request from Austrian authorities, the BKA adds.
The gunman, identified as 20-year-old dual Austrian-Macedonian national Kujtim Fejzulai, was killed by police after going on a shooting spree in Vienna on Monday evening that left four people dead.
Armed policemen stand guard on a shopping street in the center of Vienna on November 2, 2020, following a shooting. (Joe Klamar / AFP)
Austrian police detained 14 people in the wake of the shooting, the first major attack in the country for decades and the first blamed on a jihadist.
— AFP
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