The Democratic Alevi Federation (FEDA) said in a statement about the terrorist attack in Vienna on Monday night that it was the result of the policies of the AKP-MHP government that fueled hostility.

FEDA said: "The attack on Monday night left four people dead and dozens of injured. After the capitalist imperialist system has transformed religions into its ideological apparatus, conflicts between religions and identities have blacken the future of peoples causing people to die.”

The statement added: "The state and the rulers want to break the will of the societies by creating fear, threat and terror, thus maintaining absolute power. The AKP-MHP fascist government is inflicting massacres on civilian, unarmed innocent people by raising hatred among peoples. The fascist chief paramilitary jihadists, who are not satisfied with the dirty war they are waging in the Caucasus and Kurdistan, incite hostility among the peoples of Europe and try to cause conflict between religions and cultures. We strongly condemn this brutal and barbaric attack.”

FEDA issued the following call: "We invite all humanity to stand together for a society based on love and peace. It should be well known that we will experience much more pain should we not stand together against savage and barbaric attacks.”

Background

A series of shooting in Vienna’s city centre left two women and one man dead. One attacker was killed by police. 

The Austrian government has confirmed reports that five people have died, including a suspected attacker who was shot dead by police.

Interior minister Karl Nehammer said the civilians, two men and two women, died from their injuries.

Seven people who were injured in last night’s attack remain in a “critical, life-threatening” condition, Dr Michael Binder, medical director of the Viennese health association, KAV, has told the Austrian radio programme Ö1 Journal.

The Austrian state has declared three days of mourning starting today.