Escort girl jailed after duping Canadian out of 230K

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A Romanian escort girl has on Friday been sentenced to two years in prison by a Salzburg Regional Court after she was found guilty of tricking a Canadian man out of 230,000 EUR. The woman, who has a PhD degree in nuclear physics and was living in Austria, was broke when she met the man […]

50-year-old on trial for incest

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By Rachael Williams A 50-year-old man is on trial in Klagenfurt on suspicion of incest. The man from Spittal in Carinthia is believed to have repeatedly raped his 18-year-old daughter and also offered her to other men in exchange for money. On Tuesday the man, not named for legal reasons, appeared before judge Sabine Roßmann […]

Seven injured in apartment blaze

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 Seven people have been injured in a fire in Hainburg, Austria, yesterday (Thurs) evening. The blaze began on the first floor of an apartment block, the reasons for which are not yet clear. More than 50 fire fighters came to put out the flames coming from a first floor apartment with support from 20 paramedics, […]

Vienna woman hospitalised after blaze

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A resident of Vienna has been hospitalised with smoke intoxication following a blaze.The 50-year-old woman was taken to a clinic after a fire broke out at her apartment in Brigittenau district yesterday evening (Tues). Vast parts of her kitchen were devastated by the flames which were triggered by a defect in the oven, fire brigade […]

Paralysed smoker dies in flat blaze

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A paralysed man perished when a fire ripped through an apartment in Graz yesterday evening (Weds).Paramedics failed to resuscitate the 52-year-old man after firemen entered the burning flat in the Styrian city. A female neighbour and the wheelchair-bound man’s sister had to be hospitalised suffering from serious smoke intoxication. The women had tried to extinguish […]

Vienna man dies after falling into glass cabinet

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A Viennese man bled to death after he fell into a glass cabinet yesterday afternoon (Mon).Martin B. was found lying in a pool of blood in front of the smashed case in his apartment in the Liesing district by firemen.A worried neighbour called the police after hearing an unusually loud noise coming from the flat […]

Rotten corpse found in flat

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Police are investigating after finding a decayed corpse in an apartment on Saturday.The body was discovered after a police station in Vienna received an e-mail saying: “Please take care of my mother’s body.”Johanna B. from Pforzheim in Germany was found lying under a blanket in an apartment in Vienna-Brigittenau. Investigators discovered forged documents in the […]

Leaky hose leads to hash farm

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Fire-fighters have discovered a massive marijuana cultivation set up in a living room in a flat in Vienna.Tenants of the housing estate in the Favoriten district called the local fire brigade after water started dripping from the ceiling yesterday (Mon). The incident exposed an illegal indoor hashish farm maintained by a 26-year-old man living on […]

Water damage leads to hash farm

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Fire-fighters called out about a water damage at a flat in Vienna discovered a massive cannabis plantation.Police said today (Mon) that firemen had found more than 180 marijuana crops in a 22-year-old’s flat in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus district yesterday.The fire-fighters were alerted by tenants of the apartment beneath the man’s flat after water started dropping from the […]

Tenant trapped in loo sparks fire brigade action

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Wels firemen have been kept busy after a man locked himself in his own toilet around midday today (Fri).Officials in the Upper Austrian city said worried neighbours called fire-fighters after hearing the man’s cries for help.The local fire brigade was preparing to break down the apartment door when the 44-year-old’s son arrived with a spare […]