Liquid ecstasy in water caused girl’s death

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By Rob Hyde A girl in Austria died after she drank mineral water which had been laced with liquid ecstasy, a court in Austria was told. Having taken a deep swig from the bottle, the 27 year old girl suddenly felt sick then fell into a coma, before she died at the Vienna General Hospital […]

‘Drug craze’ rave planners hit back

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Organisers of a rave have defended themselves after the event was branded as a “drug orgy” by the press. Thirty people ended up in hospital after the festival in Falkenstein, Lower Austria, at the weekend. Six drug dealers were arrested. Around 80 people are facing drug charges. Newspapers claimed the event escalated into a “wild […]

Drug racket exposed

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Upper Austrian investigators smashed what is believed to be one of the busiest drug trafficking organisations of the country.The four suspects – three men and one woman aged between 19 and 27 – are accused of having dealt with heroin and marijuana worth 160,000 Euros. The illegal substances were smuggled into Austria from Eastern Europe […]

Serial robber collared

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Police in Vienna have caught a criminal who threatened staff with a knife and a pepper spray in three robberies.Investigations into the recent series of robberies at a tanning salon, a sex video shop and a tobacconist’s in the district of Leopoldstadt led to drug addict Olaf K. The 23-year-old was put in custody yesterday […]

Farmer faces jail for ignoring cow vaccination order

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A Tyrolean farmer may be jailed for refusing to vaccinate his animals against blue tongue disease.Albin Wegscheider from Oberhofen said today (Weds) that he feared the vaccine may have had negative effects on the health of his cows and goats. He said the information leaflet about the drug warned that side effects on the general […]

Fake undercover investigator nabbed

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A fake policeman tricked at least three people into financially supporting his supposed fight against drug crimes.The German man was arrested in a hotel in Salzburg after two of his victims reported him to police when they realised what was going on. One of the victims lost around 10,000 Euros, according to police in Innsbruck, […]

Teen robber caught after CCTV footage release

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A teenage drug addict has been arrested after he forced a man to get off a train, withdraw money from a hole in the wall and hand it over.Nemanja P., 17, was tracked down after police published CCTV footage of the incident which occurred on 25 January.The young man approached his 26-year-old victim on a […]

Lucky cow

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Cow lucky can you get?This terrified heifer that hoofed it when she broke out of a slaughterhouse in Bergheim, Austria, has been rescued after a millionaire businessman adopted her.The panicked animal now named Isabella trampled over fields after the escape bid – crossing busy main roads as police tried to cordon her off so she […]

Nicholson angered by flopped hash legalisation bid

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Hollywood legend Jack Nicholson has expressed outrage that marijuana was not legalised in California last year.The actor told Austrian magazine Live he was “angry” that an appeal to make the consumption of small amounts of the drug legal did not get enough support in the US American state’s legislature last November.Attempts by Austrian-born Arnold Schwarzenegger […]

Policeman fined for beating ‘drug dealer’ teacher

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A police officer who mistook an African-American teacher for a drug dealer has been fined by a court nearly two years after the incident which made international headlines.Mike Brennan from Jacksonville, Florida, who works at Vienna International School (VIS), went on sick leave for several weeks after the incident in February 2009 in which he […]