Two young men who injured more than a dozen people with an air-powered gun in Vienna in the past weeks will be kept in custody. Crime officials in the city said yesterday (Mon) the friends, both aged 20, would remain in detention for another two weeks when judges would decide over whether they would be […]
Horrified plumbers called the police after finding body parts in buckets of dry cement in a basement.The workers were ordered to lay new gas and water pipes in the cellar of the housing estate in Vienna-Meidling when they made the terrifying discoveries on Monday afternoon. Police evacuated the basement to search for clues.Forensic investigators are […]
A man has been arrested after claiming that his girlfriend “was clambering about” in their flat in front of the window before she plunged to her death.The 29-year-old woman died before an ambulance arrived at the housing estate in Vienna-Landstraße yesterday evening (Tues).Her boyfriend, 24, told police he had been drinking with her in their […]
A man accused of killing a brown bear has been excluded from the Carinthian Hunters Association.Officials said today (Fri) they decided to expel the hunter for life due to evidence garnered by special investigators examining the killing of bear Roznik. The animals skinned corpse was found with its head missing in a stream bed in […]
The company running Vienna International Airport (VIA) may launch legal action against firms hired to build a controversial new terminal, it has emerged.Flughafen AG said today (Thurs) it was negotiating with its legal team over whether to call for compensation from companies hired to build Skylink, a terminal that was set to open in 2008. […]
Police have reported the biggest seizure of child-pornographic material ever made in Austria.Federal Crime Office (BK) investigators announced a 53-year-old Vienna resident is in custody after officers found more than one million underage porn images at his home.Investigator Jürgen Ungerböck said today (Fri): “The man lived in an extremely dirty flat. He probably had little […]
Police in the Styrian town of Gleisdorf said toiletry articles worth several thousands Euros have been stolen from a megastore.Investigators announced today (Thurs) the intruders took all the shower gel, perfumes and various cosmetic articles from the shops storage facilities. They added the stolen goods were worth around 26,000 Euros.The robbers are still being sought […]
Police said drug dealers they had arrested on the weekend had earned more than 600,000 Euros selling heroin during the past 11 months.Investigators in Klagenfurt announced today (Mon) the four-member all-male gang aged 19 to 22 had been taken into custody and 1.8 kilograms of heroin had been confiscated.Police found out the gang who […]
Police in Austria registered almost 100 tip offs by people in the case of Madeleine McCann who went missing at a Portuguese holiday resort in 2007.Alexander Marakovits, a spokesman for the Federal Crime Office (BK), said today (Tues) almost 100 people got in touch with authorities claiming to have evidence. He stressed investigators checked all […]