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| - Austrian police have arrested 14 people in raids linked to the deadly attack in Vienna and have found no evidence that a second shooter was involved, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said Tuesday. "There have been 18 raids in Vienna and Lower Austria and 14 people have been detained," Nehammer told a televised press conference. The minister added that police believe that Monday's shooting in central Vienna was carried out by a lone gunman, Kujtim Fejzulai, a 20-year-old Islamic State sympathiser who was killed by police on Monday night. The video material evaluated by the police "does not at this time show any evidence of a second attacker," Nehammer said. Vienna police chief Gerhard Puerstl said at the same press conference that other people who have shown support for IS were under observation. "The strengthened police presence will continue," he added. Fejzulai, a dual Austrian and Macedonian national, was convicted of a terror offence in April last year for trying to travel to Syria. He was sentenced to 22 months in prison, but was freed on parole in December. Nehammer said he had been on a de-radicalisation programme and had managed to secure an early release. "The perpetrator managed to fool the justice system's de-radicalisation programme, to fool the people in it, and to get an early release through this," he said. Asked whether the programme had failed, Nehammer said there was a "fracture" in the system. While he said he did not want to "point fingers... we must look very closely at what can be improved." jsk-txw/spm
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