"However, a political consideration could be what measures prevent people from being in a state where they would do such a thing," he mentioned as an alternative prevention approach.

The phenomenon of radicalized lone actors differs from classic IS terrorism, where surveillance measures would have made sense. And he is at least skeptical, even though the internet played a certain role in the apparently rapid radicalization, to explore only this causality alone.

After Terrorist Attack in Villach: Prevention Through Professionalized Integration Work

Schmidinger, on the other hand, advocates for professionalized integration work - work in an area that still reveals shortcomings at present - and also "especially in the psychosocial care of people who bring traumatic events with them." An expansion of these care measures would at least have the potential to reduce the candidate group for such terrorist acts and thus possibly save lives.

According to Schmidinger, there is a need for discussion here and an opportunity for politics to "create better framework conditions, where money can be invested in prevention projects, in psychosocial care, in good integration work, which must always also consider the majority society and the migration society." However, the situation in these areas has not improved in reality in recent years, nor have the political framework conditions.

Radicalization Through Alienation

He has been "preaching" this approach for ten years, yet the situation has actually gotten worse "and I have somewhat lost hope that there will be an understanding. Instead, racism has truly reached the center in Austria in recent years. One should not believe "that these people do not notice how they are being discussed in Austrian society" - feelings of alienation and, in extreme cases, even a certain hatred towards this society could result from this.

According to Schmidinger, alienation has also occurred among a younger generation of Muslims due to the way the Gaza war was and is being discussed in Europe or Austria, "or how it was not discussed. One must not overlook that we live in a very thematically globalized world today, where events, even if they occur hundreds of kilometers away, are perceived and have impacts." And such experiences of alienation could fundamentally also be a basis for radicalizations among a minority.

(APA/Red)

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