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Austria to strengthen security agencies following Paris terror attacks

Xinhua, November 17, 2015 Adjust font size:

Austrian Minister of the Interior Johanna Mikl-Leitner on Monday announced plans to strengthen domestic security agencies in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.

The planned measures would specifically relate to boosting both personnel and assets, and would apply to the Federal Criminal Police Office (BK), state security, as well as special forces units, Mikl-Leitner said in an interview with APA.

The minister said she had tasked the Director General for Public Security, Konrad Kogler, with creating a detailed concept plan, aimed at "increasing the tempo of our professionals."

It is important to fight against terrorism "with full determination," but that one must also be careful "that the pendulum does not swing too far in the other direction," she said.

In addition, the minister noted that no particular religious or ethnic group would be targeted, but rather only terrorists themselves.

Separately on Monday, interior ministry spokesperson Karl-Heinz Grundboeck said preliminary investigations had shown no links between the Paris terror attacks and Austria.

He said earlier media reports speculating that one or more of the terrorists had traveled through Austria en route to Paris had so far appeared to be without factual basis. Endit