Four teenagers have been arrested after going on a joyride in a stolen car in Vienna.The friends three boys and a girl aged 16 and 17 respectively were arrested after being pulled over by traffic policemen on Tuesday night. The officers found out that the vehicle was reported as stolen by a newspaper […]
A clerk at a tobacconist’s suffered minor injuries when she was attacked by a robber with an electroshock gun.The criminal who is being sought by police asked the woman to unlock a glass showcase of lighters before striking her down with a stun gun. The 43-year-old bit the robber in the hand after […]
Viennese police are investigating after a man robbed a sports betting pub in Leopoldstadt district last night (Tues/Weds).The masked criminal, who was armed with a gun, forced a waitress to lead him to the safe of the inn which is open 24 hours a day. He escaped with an undisclosed amount of money around 3am.Several […]
A Lower Austrian man faces charges for illegal possession of a weapon after he admitted having injured himself with a gun, it was announced today (Tues).The 33-year-old shot himself in the left hand as he tried out the weapon in an agricultural field near Sollenau on Friday. He drove to a nearby clinic for treatment […]
A jobless teenager was arrested after shooting with his gun inside a tram in Vienna.Police in the capital announced today (Tues) David W. fired a shot into the ceiling of the line 5 tram wagon with his gas-powered sport gun on Sunday afternoon after having argued with other passengers for some time.The 18-year-old dashed out […]
A Vienna underground line came to a halt for two hours after an armed Egyptian man sat down on the rails yesterday (Thurs).Ahmed M. handed out leaflets at the U4 U-Bahn line Landstraße station which criticised authorities for not awarding him Austrian citizenship after having lived 10 years in the country. The 38-year-old then took […]
A 44-year-old man has been put in custody after police discovered a dead chamois and an unregistered weapon in his car.Traffic police officers found the killed animal and an unlicensed gun, which features a sound absorber, in the boot of the mans vehicle during a traffic check in Bad Ischl, Upper Austria.He was arrested after […]
A British man has described the terrifying moment when an armed robber pointed a gun at him after he went into a high street bank in the centre of Linz yesterday (Tuesday).Simon Byrne, 24, from Liverpool, said: “I had only just walked into the bank in the middle of the day. I wanted to open […]
Four people accused of selling cocaine at a posh Viennese eatery have been arrested.Police in the federal capital announced today (Thurs) that restaurant boss Werner D. had admitted having flogged 1.2 kilograms of the drug to regular customers over the past two years.The 66-year-old as well as three alleged accomplices were taken into custody yesterday […]
A special commission is set to investigate after a solider shot himself in the leg yesterday (Weds).Deputy Salzburg military commander Johann Hehenberger confirmed today that a 23-year-old solider was hospitalised after a gun bullet entered his thigh in the incident which occurred at the Ramsau / Molln shooting range.Hehenberger added that a commission was set […]