Twenty-four hours after the attack that killed at least four people in Vienna, Austria, the country is in shock but tries to unite and thanks the heroes of Monday's night of horror, including Recep and Michael, two young people of Turkish origin who rescued the first wounded, including a policeman.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the Vienna attack on Tuesday evening, whose provisional death toll is four dead and fifteen wounded.

The terrorist, a 20-year-old Austrian of Albanian origin, deliberately targeted in cold blood with his Kalashnikov people who were on the terraces of cafes in the synagogue district.

He was known to the police because he had already tried to go to Syria.

Last year, he was released from prison early because he had followed a deradicalization program.

Austria is stunned, but she tried to gather around the figures, heroes of Monday night.

"We found ourselves in the middle of the shooting"

Recep and Mikail are in their twenties, like the terrorist.

They wanted to take advantage of the last hours in the fashionable district of Vienna, before the entry into force of the lockdown.

“One last coffee,” says Mikail, “when suddenly we found ourselves in the middle of the shooting”.

The two friends play combat sports on a semi-professional level;

they rush to help passers-by.

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"We reject terror"

A video, shot from a balcony, shows them under the grapeshot rescuing a seriously injured policeman.

At dawn, Mikail posts a message that goes viral.

"We Muslims of Turkish origin reject terror in all its forms. We are with Austria, we are with Vienna. We respect Austria. And whatever happens, we are ready to bring it. our help. "

Before the intervention of the two young people of Turkish origin, the policeman had received first aid from a 23-year-old Palestinian, employed in a fast-food restaurant, a face known to the Austrians because last year his family had found themselves at the heart of a scandal, she was refused the purchase of a house in the north of the country on the grounds that the mayor of the country did not want Muslims in his town.