The public prosecutor charges the accused with the crimes of the terrorist organization and the criminal organization. He is specifically accused of building a library with Salafist books in his apartment and of having represented the ideology of the radical Islamist terrorist militia “Islamic State” (IS) in lectures. According to the indictment, the man is said to have distributed content that came directly from the IS media office in various chat channels with 29 participants.
To this end, the public prosecutor’s office obtained a total of three expert opinions from the German Islam scholar and terrorism expert Guido Steinberg, which he now presented to the jury. Accordingly, two volumes were found in the library confiscated by the security authorities “which clearly indicate a jihadist orientation”. At one point in the chats, a verbal confession by the defendant to the IS can be read explicitly, said Steinberg. He also quoted IS anthems and an IS magazine under which circumstances the killing of civilians is permissible.
In the chats, the defendant categorized Austria as a “house of war” and called for jihad once morest people of other faiths. In the chats, the accused also declared “spoils of war” at the expense of people of other faiths to be permissible and claimed to have lived off it for a while, the expert explained.
