The former son-in-law of the Kazkh president, who is wanted in Kazakhstan on charges of murder and kidnapping, has been arrested in Vienna. Austrian authorities has in the past twice denied to extradite Rakhat Aliyev, who until 2007 had been an ambassador in Austria, to the Central Asian country saying that human rights violations there […]
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The former head of the budget department in Salzburg Monika Rathgeber said in an interview with the magazine “Profil” that everyone was blaming her for the financial scandal. In the interview, Monika Rathgeber gives her detailed view on the charges against her, reported the Austria Press Agency (APA). Apparently, there were neither secret deals nor […]
Austrian prosecutors have dropped sexual harassment charges against a man who pinched the bottom of a woman he saw on the street after saying that sexual harassment can only involve a woman’s breasts or private parts. The incident happened at the start of October when the 43-year-old woman who works in a bank in the […]
Romanian Dracula bites Turk in Graz
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Sorin Ionescu, 39, from Transylvania in Romania has been arrested in the southern Austrian city of Graz after he bit a 23-year-old Turkish man in the neck when the pair got into an argument. Police said both were drunk and the Turkish man had to be hospitalised with neck injuries after the biting attack from […]
Psychiatrists have given the go-ahead for the prosecution of a Polish cleaning lady accused of poisoning her employers shortly after they agreed to leave her all their possessions. The woman was named only as Bogumila W., 51, because of data protection laws that prevent police from revealing her full name. The woman was arrested after […]
Immigrants fight beggars in Salzburg
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Austrian police were called after a group of 20 young men all with an immigrant background and armed with sticks laid siege to an abandoned factory in Salzburg where a group of Gypsy beggars had taken up residence. Police have not yet commented on the reason for the altercation but have confirmed that in general […]
A 17-year-old boy has been caught after selling 17,000 Euros worth of electrical equipment that he acquired after forging contracts and identification in Salzburg. For more than a month beginning in April of this year, the boy completed contracts with different mobile network operators in Salzburg under a false name. Through these contracts he received […]
A 16-year-old groper from Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria, sexually assaulted four women after his girlfriend left him. For a month the “grope phantom” kept Wiener Neustadt apprehensive, now the teenager is facing two and a half years in prison. Investigator Michael Heyderer said: “The youth is facing sexual assault charges in two cases and sexual […]
Driver reverses to hit police car
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A crazed motorist was arrested after ploughing into a police car – in reverse gear. Police officers decided to follow the man due to his erratic driving style in Vienna-Favoriten on Wednesday evening. After the boozed-up driver finally pulled over, he put his vehicle into reverse to crash into the parked police car. The 54-year-old […]
Two men from Vienna got into a fistfight outside a hairdresser’s in western Hungary yesterday (Weds).The Austrians aged 44 and 74 quarrelled about the only vacant parking spot outside the shop in Sopron before pouncing on each other. They were temporarily arrested and questioned after the horrified hairstylist called the police.Meanwhile, police in […]