CEMO denounces Vienna attacks; warns against rising extremist tide in Europe
CAIRO – The Center for Middle East Studies in Paris (CEMO) denounced today a multiple gun attack that took place in Austrian capital Vienna Monday, killing four and wounding over a dozen others.
Center Director
Abdel Rahim Ali warned against a rise in terrorism and extremism in Europe.
He called in a
statement on European governments to take firm decisions against the members of
the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood movement.
Ali also called for
taking firm decisions against other movements and groups that share the same
ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood.
"A large number
of the members of this movement have started infiltrating European states after
the noose had been tightened around them in Turkey and Qatar," Ali said.
He added that the
two countries started giving a hard time to this terrorist movement after it
had failed in serving their agendas, namely of turning Arab states into parts
of the aspired caliphate of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Qatari
Emir Tamim bin Hamad.
Ali noted that Egypt
and its President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi succeeded in sabotaging Qatari and
Turkish schemes in Libya, Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
Egypt and its leader
rescued the whole region from the rule of the Supreme Guide of the Muslim
Brotherhood, Ali said.
He condoled with the
families of the dead victims of the Vienna attacks and wished those wounded in
the attacks the speediest recovery.
Four people were killed in the attacks. Seventeen
other people were wounded - some seriously - after gunmen opened fire at six
different locations in the city centre on Monday evening.
One attacker was shot dead by police,
officials said.
Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer
described the assailant killed by police as an "Islamist terrorist".
He later told the APA news agency that the
20-year-old gunman had been released early from jail last December, eight
months after he was convicted of trying to travel to Syria to join the militant
Islamic State group (IS).
