A 33-year-old Austrian has died shortly after a car accident in Hungary.The man from the Austrian province of Styria died at a clinic due to the massive injuries he suffered in the head-on collision on the M70 main road near Letenye yesterday (Weds).Local police said today the driver of the other car a Romanian […]
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A blaze which killed two young children was started by their mother, it has emerged.Enrico, 8, and his six-year-old sister Esther were killed by the fire in the family home in the Styrian town of Judenburg yesterday (Tues).Now local police have announced that their mother Esther F. admitted having caused the fire which caused substantial […]
Chocolate truck nicked
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A lorry transporting chocolate worth more than 100,000 Euros was tracked down in Germany after being stolen in the Austrian province of Tyrol.The truck was discovered by police just across the Austrian-German border yesterday evening (Mon). None of its cargo 21 tons of fine chocolate worth 125,000 Euros were missing.The vehicle disappeared from […]
Hot-air balloons stolen
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Lower Austrian police have started investigating the theft of three hot-air balloons.The folded balloons, together worth more than 180,000 Euros, were nicked from a company estate in Guntramsdorf. The owners of the balloons – called Pink Cameron, Eispeter and Casino Baden – reported the theft on Sunday, according to a police statement from today (Tues).Various […]
Burglars nicked 200,000 Euros worth of clothes from a shop in Vöcklabruck, leaving less valuable items, police have announced.Upper Austrian authorities said today (Tues) that the gang escaped with hundreds of items of pricey designer outfits for women from Italy and France. They said the criminals seemed to have known what they were looking for […]
A Bosnian businessmans apartment in Vienna was stormed by a special police unit amid claims the man was fugitive war criminal Ratko Mladic.Bosnian newspapers reported that Avdo S., who settled in Austria 18 years ago, was woken up from his afternoon nap by a heavily armed police last weekend.Now Rudolf Gollia, a spokesman for the […]
Prom treasurer squanders 3,500
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A young Styrian faces embezzlement charges for spending thousands of Euros of his schoolmates savings for their upcoming graduation ball.Colleagues reported the 18-year-old to police after finding out that he spent around 3,500 Euros of money collected by them to finance their upcoming prom (Maturaball).Police in Liezen said today (Weds) 87 students in their final […]
Police prevented three suspected car thieves from escaping into Hungary with a rented Mercedes worth 31,000 Euros last night (Thurs-Fri). Burgenland police said today they had arrested the 25-year-old American male driving the car, a 41-year-old Romanian man and a 31-year-old Romanian woman at a former truck rest stop on the eastern motorway (A4) near […]
Teen accused of break-in spree
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A Lower Austrian teenager is suspected of being behind a series of burglaries.The 16-year-old was put in preventive detention this morning (Thurs) following months of police investigations.Officials in Amstetten district announced the teen who faces youth crime charges was accused of being responsible for 28 break-ins in the area causing overall damages of […]
A pensioner faces charges for defacing the wall of a church, it has been announced.The 64-year-old man, who has a criminal record, is accused of smearing white paint on the outside wall of a Roman Catholic Chapel in his hometown Steinberg-Dörfl, according to police in Burgenland.The man, who denies the actions, previously accused police of […]