More than a dozen police officers from Carinthia are currently supporting their colleagues in Tyrol to fight the growing number of ski thefts.There were 2,724 reported cases of ski thefts in Tyrol last year, up by 13.2 per cent compared to 2008. Figures also increased in five other of Austrias overall nine provinces year on […]
A majority of Austrians active on internet community portals do not keep their private and professional lives separate, according to new research.Career website Monster found 55 per cent of Austrians registered on Facebook and similar platforms use the services to connect both with personal friends and business partners.Monster stressed more than six in ten Germans […]
Cyber crime has been identified as posing a growing threat to Austrians.Federal Crime Office (BK) chief Gerhard Lang said today (Thurs) the number of internet fraud and abuse cases has soared from just 22 in the first nine months of 2009 to 1,074 in the same period of this year.Lang explained cases of stalking and […]
Incest beast Josef Fritzl is the main focus of a new crime cases documentary on German TV.Internationally acknowledged Austrian profiler Thomas Müller has been signed up to analyse infamous crime cases such as that of 74-year-old Fritzl for “Urteil: Mord” (Sentence: Murder) on private channel Sat.1.The series, which started earlier this month, is screened at […]
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 […]
Twelve people have been hospitalised with listeria infections, nine of them having become ill after eating deadly Quargel cheese produced by Styrian firm Prolactal GmbH.The Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) reported the news today (Weds), adding that the 12th confirmed case was that of a 74-year-old man from Upper Austria who had […]
The Roman Catholic Graz-Seckau diocese has today (Weds) revealed how a former victim of sexual abuse by priests tried to blackmail them for one million Euros.The dioceses made the statement when it confirmed reports about a case of sexual abuse of boys by a priest in the 1970s as reported by the newspaper Kleine Zeitung.The […]