Police investigating the death of a Tunisian have arrested another man.Viennese officials said yesterday (Tues) that they have put Abdelmonam O. into custody. The man is suspected of having been involved in the killing of Mohamed T.The 69-year-old was rushed to a clinic after a passersby found him lying in a street in Vienna-Penzing on […]
Tag: man
Fake undercover investigator nabbed
Categories
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, […]
Driver never had a licence
Categories
An Austrian who never took a driving test faces charges for breaching traffic rules after being caught behind the wheel on Sunday.Asked by traffic police for his licence in Ruhstorf an der Rott, Germany, near the Austrian border, the 51-year-old man admitted that he has never possessed one. Bavarian traffic officials contacted their colleagues in […]
A German hiker survived a night at subzero temperatures after falling down a steep cliff.A search operation was launched for the 31-year-old man yesterday (Mon) but to no avail. He was eventually discovered dangling in a net set up to protect roads and houses from falling rocks near Sölden in Tyrols Imst district.Rescuers said the […]
A Styrian farmer is suspected of having kept a mentally disabled person as a servant just weeks after another farmer from the same province was sentenced to prison for the same offence.The provincial Agriculture Chamber said today (Mon) that it planned to take the farmer from Oberkurzheim near Judenburg to court over the accusations.The […]
A besotted man was arrested after he threatened his to kill his love interest when he was rejected last night (Sun/Mon).The woman invited the 36-year-old to dinner at her home in Linz, Upper Austria, last night (Sun) after they had been dating for some time. When the 29-year-old eventually told the lovestruck man that she […]
Police are hunting a Bosnian man accused of clubbing his wife to death.Miladin G. has been on the run since what is believed to be a wild argument at the family home in Pabing-Nußdorf, Salzburg, on Saturday. The mans wife, 41, was found lying in a puddle of blood on the bedroom floor. A 50-centimetre […]
More than 100 flat screen TVs were stolen from a parked lorry while the driver slept in its cabin.The 45-year-old driver stopped in a parking bay at a rest stop on the A1 western motorway near Roggendorf, for the night on Wednesday, police said today (Fri).Investigations were started yesterday after the man realised that all […]
A young man suffered several broken bones when he fell out of a second-floor window last night (Thurs/Fri).Roland P. opened the balcony door in the family home in Zwettl, Lower Austria, before falling over the handrail, police said today.The 21-year-old, who had never sleepwalked before, was found by his girlfriend who started looking for him […]
An unemployed man has been arrested after he clocked up a bill of over 700 Euros at a posh restaurant but failed to pay.The 47-year-old had several courses and two bottles of wine at the Steirereck restaurant in Vienna-Landstraße yesterday evening (Weds).Managers of the award-winning eatery considered to be one of the best restaurants […]