2015 Graz car attack

2015 Graz car attack
The Grazer Herrengasse, one of the crime scenes (photo from 2003).
LocationGraz, Austria
Date20 June 2015; 9 years ago (2015-06-20)
12:15 p.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Weapons
Deaths4
Injured36
PerpetratorAlen Rizvan Rizvanović
Map
Route of the 2015 Graz car attack. Places where fatalities occurred are marked.

On 20 June 2015, Alen Rizvanović drove a sports utility vehicle at high speeds through the center of Graz, Austria, killing three people in a matter of minutes and injuring 43 others, one of them dying months later. At one point during the attack, Rizvanović got out of the vehicle and stabbed two passers-by.

Rizvanović was arrested and given a life sentence. He committed suicide in prison in September 2023.[1]

  1. ^ "U zatvoru se ubio trostruki ubica Alen Rizvanović, manijak koji je autom gazio pješake po Grazu". N1 Bosnia and Herzegovina (in Bosnian). 27 September 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2024.