Vienna, May 27, 2026 (AFP) - Austria sentences Syrian to life over deadly knife attack

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2026-05-27

An Austrian court on Wednesday sentenced an unrepentant 24-year-old Syrian Kurd refugee to life in prison over a jihadist knife attack which claimed the life of a teenage boy and wounded five. "He said he was prepared to do it again at any time," Christian Liebhauser-Karl, spokesman for the court in the southern city of Klagenfurt, told AFP. After his arrest, the man told police he regretted not having achieved his aim of killing at least 10 peo......

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