A 50-year-old British holidaymaker died while skiing with friends in the Tyrolean Alps, police said today (Fri).Officials in Sölden said the man may have skied into a fence post at the bottom of a “red piste” in the glacier resort on Wednesday.The victim – identified by authorities as Stuart M. from Kent – was skiing […]
A Facebook group calling for the “reopening” of Austrian concentration camp Mauthausen was taken offline after winning more than 13,000 members, officials have said.Political scientist Markus Rachbauer said members of the group called “Child abusers, well reopen Mauthausen for you!” belittled Nazi era crimes.”People posting messages there called for torture and murder,” he said.Facebook user […]
A farmer was seriously injured when he was pinned beneath his tractor yesterday (Thurs), police said.The 71-year-old man was driving through woods near Neusiedl in Lower Austrias Zwettl district when his tractor veered off the track and rolled down a four-metre embankment, rolling over twice.He was thrown from the tractor and ended up pinned underneath […]
Gadgets are still no match for trained companions when an avalanche strikes, a Salzburg mountain rescuer said today (Fri).Josef Schiefer, 45, from St. Johann im Pongau, said taking an avalanche course and being trained in how to use sensors and shovels were also important, adding that such equipment should always be brought when ski touring.Schiefer […]
A 70-year-old German skier died yesterday (Weds) after skiing off piste and hitting a tree at the Bergeralm ski area in Tyrols Innsbruck-Land district, police said.The accident occurred at around 2pm. Rescuers were unable to help the man, who died on the spot owing to severe head and chest injuries.
A 21-year-old man who tried to rob a kebab stand was sentenced to two and a half years in prison yesterday (Tues) by Feldkirch provincial court.The man and a 14-year old accomplice with a pistol had tried to hold up the stand in Frastanz, Vorarlberg in January, but the mother of its Kurdish proprietor threw […]
A fire at a wood warehouse in Bad Eisenkappel in Carinthias Völkermarkt district early this morning (Weds) caused 300,000 Euros in damages, police said.The fire, which broke out for as yet unknown reasons shortly after midnight, consumed 200 cubic metres of wood. Six fire companies kept the fire from spreading to nearby buildings.Police said no […]
There were serious deficiencies in food controls last year in Styria, the free Styrian weekly newspaper Woche claimed yesterday (Tues).Woches report comes in the wake of news about Styrian firm Prolactal, which produced the deadly Quargel cheese last year resulting in the deaths of 10 people in Austria and Germany.Woche said lack of personnel had […]
Holocaust denier Gerd Honsik has had his prison sentence reduced from five to four years by the Appeals Senate of Viennas Higher Regional Court (OLG) yesterday (Mon).Judge Christian Dostal said that the original sentence was “too long.” He added that making an example of Honsik in an attempt to deter others from engaging in the […]
Vienna travel agency Siesta IT-Reisen and Viennas so-called “jumbo group” of travel agencies reported today (Mon) that no Austrians had been hurt in the Chilean earthquake.An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale occurred off shore of Concepcion, Chile, early Saturday morning.Two Austrians were stranded on Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean because of the […]