An autopsy has been ordered to try and work out why a 44-year-old man dropped dead after he was given an injection to calm him down after being arrested by police following a high-speed car chase that went from Austria through into Slovenia. The 44-year-old Viennese man sped off from police after a routine spot […]
Austrian police have arrested two butchers from the Czech Republic who worked in a meat packaging plant on the border who used to sneak out into the car park at the back of their firm and throw meat over the fence where accomplices would load into the car and sell it across the border to […]
A valuable violin that was stolen from its Australian musician owner as she travelled on the Vienna Underground has been recovered after police arrested a gang of crooks at the weekend. The violin estimated to be worth 44,000 euros was the property of the Australian violinist Emma West, who said that she thought she would […]
Police in Vienna have issued this wanted photograph of a man who managed to somehow get a front door key for an empty flat – and then put an advert in to the newspapers offering to rent out for a cash payment of €10,000 upfront. In Austria although technically not legal or difficult to demand […]
Austrian police have released this picture of a “Catch Me If You Can” marriage swindler who claimed to be an airline pilot to meet single women and con them out of money. In the film “Catch Me If You Can” a fake pilot played by Leonardo DiCaprio travels the world and also lies to women […]
Austrian police are hunting a refugee family from Syria who dumped one of their children at the train station in Vienna after discovering that they didn’t have enough money to buy all three of their children a ticket for the final part of their journey to Berlin. The family of five had reportedly paid smugglers […]
Psychiatrists have given the go-ahead for the prosecution of a Polish cleaning lady accused of poisoning her employers shortly after they agreed to leave her all their possessions. The woman was named only as Bogumila W., 51, because of data protection laws that prevent police from revealing her full name. The woman was arrested after […]
A police search for an escaped crocodile after two children reported that it had attacked them and munched its way through one of their shoes has been stepped down over fears that the beast might be scared away to a location where it would then be impossible to find. The drama started when the two […]
A hotheaded Hungarian got the chance to cool off after threatening to kill his girlfriend and her sister when he jumped into the river Salzach and tried to swim away in order to escape police. But with the temperature in the river just under 12 degrees the 41-year-old Hungarian was soon in difficulties and had […]
Naked sunbathers were left completely stark naked after their cars were towed by police on the Donauinsel in Vienna, Austria Police towed 57 vehicles parked illegally near to the naked bathing area along the Danube river. Many of the bathers had left their clothes in the car as they went for some all over tanning […]