2015 Graz van attack
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The Grazer Herrengasse, one of the crime scenes (photo from 2003).
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Route of the vehicle during the attack
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| Location | Graz, Austria |
| Date | 20 June 2015 12:15 p.m. – 12:20 p.m. |
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| Deaths | 3 |
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Non-fatal injuries
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36 |
| Perpetrator | Alen Rizvan Rizvanović |
The 2015 Graz attack occurred on 20 June 2015, when the perpetrator, identified as Alen Rizvanović, drove a sports utility vehicle at high speeds through the center of Graz, Austria, killing three people in a matter of minutes and injuring 36 others, some of them seriously. At one point during the attack, Rizvanović got out of the vehicle and stabbed passers-by. He was later arrested by police.
On 20 June 2015, a vehicular attack occurred at 12:15 p.m. in the center of the Austrian city of Graz. Alen Rizvanović, the driver, intentionally killed and injured pedestrians and cyclists by hitting them with a green SUV-type Daewoo Rexton, which he was driving at an estimated speed of up to 100 kilometres (62 mi) per hour. According to a spokesperson, the rampage started in Zweiglgasse, where one victim died. Rizvanović then drove through the city, passing over the Schönaugasse bridge and entering Herrengasse, where he killed two more people. He then crashed into a café seating area in the Hauptplatz (main square), where an event related to the 2015 Austrian Grand Prix was being held.
During his attack, Rizvanović jumped briefly out of his car, ran up to an elderly couple in front of a grocery shop, and stabbed them with a knife, wounding the man severely. He then drove to a police station at Schmiedgasse and was arrested by police without resistance. A witness compared the sounds of chairs and tables being knocked over by the vehicle to a "gunfight". The attack lasted for five minutes. Sixty ambulances and four helicopters were sent to transport injured victims to hospitals.
Perpetrator, a Bosnian Muslim, initially described himself as a Catholic with mental health issues.
Three people were immediately killed in the attack and a total of 36 others, including three children, were wounded, six of them seriously and one critically. All of the casualties were hit by Rizvanović's car, with the exception of a couple, who were stabbed by Rizvanović when he got out of the car.
Alen Rizvan Rizvanović, a 26-year-old Bosnian Muslim, had fled his hometown of Bihać during the Bosnian War at the age of four alongside his parents. The family moved to Austria, where they became Austrian citizens. Rizvanović eventually found employment as a truck driver. He was under a restraining order filed on 28 May, which kept him away from the home of his wife and two young children following a domestic violence report being filed against him a month prior. As a result of the restraining order, police revoked Rizvanović's weapon's licence and confiscated a semiautomatic firearm and ammunition belonging to him.
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