05-11-2020 11:49 via kvoa.com

Austria plans intelligence agency reforms after attack

VIENNA (AP) — Austrian leaders are calling for more legal options to fight extremism and for an overhaul of the country’s domestic intelligence agency in the wake of this week’s deadly attack blamed on a known Islamic radical. Austrian authorities had been warned that the attacker had tried to buy ammunition in neighboring Slovakia this summer. The gunman had a previous conviction for trying to join the Islamic State group in Syria and had been given early release in December.
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