Four prisoners escaped this (Fri) morning from Hirtenberg prison in Lower Austria’s Baden district. Two of them were caught 20 minutes after their escape, a grand scale search for the other two is being conducted by a joint effort of 80 justice officials and police staff and a helicopter from the interior ministry. The four […]
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A Green Party official has asked prosecutors to investigate against a right-wing politician over a controversial joke he posted on his Facebook profile.Gottfried Plichta of the Freedom Partys (FPÖ) branch in the Lower Austrian town of Hirtenberg wrote on his page of the social networking platform that his dog was granted welfare benefits “because he […]
Fugitive caught 18 years on
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A Turk who escaped from an Austrian jail more than 15 years ago has been arrested after he tried to settle down in Vienna.The man managed to break out of a prison in Hirtenberg, Lower Austria, in 1993 when being ordered to mow the lawn in a low security zone.The 47-year-old was caught in Vienna […]