The Austrian police honored a Palestinian youth for his participation in defending a security officer during the attack that took place in the center of the Austrian capital Vienna on Monday evening, while Austrian television praised two Turkish men who rescued two citizens and a policeman during the attack.
Khaled Judeh, the father of the honored Palestinian youth, Osama Judeh, said on his Facebook page that the Vienna Police Command had awarded the two golden sons of Nishan.
In recognition of his bravery in saving the life of an Austrian officer in the terrorist attack that took place last night.
Khaled Judeh commented, "God bless you and my son, and thank you, Austria."
On Monday evening, Vienna witnessed an armed attack that killed 5 people, including the bomber, and injured 17 others, according to the Austrian Ministry of Interior.
Social media leaders shared details of what Osama Judeh (23 years old) did.
He took the initiative to rescue a policeman after a serious injury and to provide him with first aid, and despite heavy gunfire, the wounded policeman was put in the ambulance.
Details of the accident and
during an interview with him, the young man said that he was meters away from the event the moment he returned from work, but he was surprised by the shooting of a terrorist in the place, and he tried to hide behind a tree, and the security forces came to secure him, but one of the policemen was injured, so he went out to first aid and tie him Introduce it to stop the bleeding.
Omar Al-Rawi, a member of the municipal council of the Austrian capital, said - in a post on his Facebook account - that the Palestinian youth "was one of the heroes of last night, who rescued the wounded policeman and evacuated him from the scene of the crime, endangering himself. We are proud of those of our youth and not those who are saturated with an extremist terrorist idea." May God grant you success, Osama, and protect you from all harm. "
In addition to the Palestinian youth, Austrian television praised the two Turkish youths, Recep Tayyip Gultekin and Michael Ozer for their role in saving the life of a policeman who was injured in the Vienna attack, by taking him to an ambulance that was at a distance from the scene of the engagement.
Gultekin told Anadolu Agency that he was with his friend Mikael Oz when he saw an injured woman at the site of the attack, indicating that he had taken her to a nearby restaurant.
He explained that when he got out of the restaurant, the gunman shot and hit his right leg, pointing out that he then went to the police station to report the incident.
The young Turkish man added that he later saw an elderly woman near the scene of the accident, who was traumatized by the attack, so he and his friend helped her.