<p>Austria's domestic intelligence service is investigating a rapper whose music was allegedly used as the backdrop to a deadly anti-Semitic attack in Germany last year, a spokesperson said Thursday.</p>.<p>The musician, known only under pseudonyms, has been calling on members of neo-Nazi online forums and chat groups to carry out terrorist attacks for several years, and has posted versions of popular songs with his own racist, extremist and anti-Semitic lyrics, according to an investigation by Austrian daily Der Standard and Germany's public broadcaster ARD.</p>.<p>"We are investigating this case," a spokesperson for the interior ministry told AFP on Thursday.</p>.<p>The spokesperson added that the investigation was being conducted by the BVT, Austria's domestic intelligence agency, and had been underway for "several months".</p>.<p>The man, whose real identity remains unknown, calls himself "Mr. Bond" and "anon24431009."</p>.<p>He turned the Bloodhound Gang's "The Roof Is On Fire" into "The Mosque Is On Fire," and used the Scorpions' "Wind of Change" to glorify Adolf Hitler in "Wind of Adolf".</p>.<p>Der Standard and ARD report that his music was used as the soundtrack to a live-streamed attack last year in which a man shot dead two people after a failed attempt to storm a synagogue in the eastern German city of Halle.</p>.<p>The 28-year-old went on trial for the killings in July and admitted in court that he had planned the attack, adding that he had picked the music as a "commentary on the act."</p>.<p>A female passerby and a young man at a kebab restaurant died in the attack, one of the worst acts of anti-Semitic violence in post-war German history.</p>.<p>Though the Viennese musician's posts at first showed excitement that his music had accompanied the attack, he later expressed disappointment over the attacker's failure to enter the synagogue, branding him a "massive failure".</p>.<p>The Viennese rapper is not known to have committed acts of violence or terrorism himself, but propagating Nazi ideology is a criminal offence in Austria and offenders can face long jail terms. The Ministry of Interior last year recorded 797 incidents of right-wing extremism.</p>.<p>In US-based online forums, the Viennese man likened the Christchurch shooter who killed 51 people in mosques in 2019 to a saint and translated his racist, anti-Semitic and extremist manifesto into German.</p>.<p>"We, too have to get ready to attack very soon," he posted online, according to Der Standard and ARD.</p>
<p>Austria's domestic intelligence service is investigating a rapper whose music was allegedly used as the backdrop to a deadly anti-Semitic attack in Germany last year, a spokesperson said Thursday.</p>.<p>The musician, known only under pseudonyms, has been calling on members of neo-Nazi online forums and chat groups to carry out terrorist attacks for several years, and has posted versions of popular songs with his own racist, extremist and anti-Semitic lyrics, according to an investigation by Austrian daily Der Standard and Germany's public broadcaster ARD.</p>.<p>"We are investigating this case," a spokesperson for the interior ministry told AFP on Thursday.</p>.<p>The spokesperson added that the investigation was being conducted by the BVT, Austria's domestic intelligence agency, and had been underway for "several months".</p>.<p>The man, whose real identity remains unknown, calls himself "Mr. Bond" and "anon24431009."</p>.<p>He turned the Bloodhound Gang's "The Roof Is On Fire" into "The Mosque Is On Fire," and used the Scorpions' "Wind of Change" to glorify Adolf Hitler in "Wind of Adolf".</p>.<p>Der Standard and ARD report that his music was used as the soundtrack to a live-streamed attack last year in which a man shot dead two people after a failed attempt to storm a synagogue in the eastern German city of Halle.</p>.<p>The 28-year-old went on trial for the killings in July and admitted in court that he had planned the attack, adding that he had picked the music as a "commentary on the act."</p>.<p>A female passerby and a young man at a kebab restaurant died in the attack, one of the worst acts of anti-Semitic violence in post-war German history.</p>.<p>Though the Viennese musician's posts at first showed excitement that his music had accompanied the attack, he later expressed disappointment over the attacker's failure to enter the synagogue, branding him a "massive failure".</p>.<p>The Viennese rapper is not known to have committed acts of violence or terrorism himself, but propagating Nazi ideology is a criminal offence in Austria and offenders can face long jail terms. The Ministry of Interior last year recorded 797 incidents of right-wing extremism.</p>.<p>In US-based online forums, the Viennese man likened the Christchurch shooter who killed 51 people in mosques in 2019 to a saint and translated his racist, anti-Semitic and extremist manifesto into German.</p>.<p>"We, too have to get ready to attack very soon," he posted online, according to Der Standard and ARD.</p>