The number of applications to join the Viennese police has doubled, while more than four in ten fail the German test, it has been announced.Vienna police spokeswoman Manuela Vockner said yesterday (Sun) they received around 85 applications from Austrians every week after the launch of a recruitment campaign last month. Only around 45 applications were […]
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The number of people stopped trying to illegally enter Germany via Austria is soaring.Police in the German State of Bavaria said today (Fri) officials prevented 2,800 attempts of people trying to enter the country illegally from Austria. This is a 15 per cent year on year increase, they stressed.Officials added there were 270 prevented attempts […]
A robber armed with a pistol fled on a bicycle after robbing a petrol station in Linz, Upper Austria, police said today (Mon).The man entered the station shortly after midnight and demanded money, which he put into a plastic sack before fleeing.Police said the robber was in his early 20s, 1.85 metres tall and thin. […]
Burgenland police warned people today (Mon) against purchasing smuggled Asian chainsaws being sold on the street by Eastern Europeans, mostly Romanians, as STIHL products.The saws, produced in Asia and smuggled into Europe by sea, sell for 25 Euros at home but are being hawked in Austria at a price of 300 Euros under a fake […]
Debtor torches his own home
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A man in debt in Tadten in Burgenlands Neusiedl am See district set his own house on fire early Saturday morning, police said.The man, 35, used flammable liquid to torch the house in four different places.Police said the man had given contradictory accounts of what had supposedly happened and finally confessed to having started the […]
Tyrolean police are hunting for a driver who managed to escape by foot after a wild road chase on Saturday.Cops in the province said today (Mon) the man had caused a trail of destruction after he fled from a police check point at high speed near Innsbruck.He then crashed through a road block going around […]
A drunk man carrying 1.1 kilos of explosives showed up at a police station in Saalfelden, Salzburg, on Tuesday night demanding to speak to officers and spill the beans.The 25-year-old told startled cops he would “name names” and tell them where more of the explosive, an industrial product called “Gelatine-Donarit,” was stashed if they revoked […]
A thief stole a rhinoceros iguana worth 5,000 Euros Monday night from a store in Graz, police said.The man broke into the shop through a window between 6:45pm on Monday and 8:20am on Tuesday. Nothing else was missing from the store.Police said they suspected “a reptile enthusiast”.
Fleeing thieves cause car crash
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Two Slovak robbers caused a traffic accident on the B9 highway in Lower Austria yesterday (Tues) after robbing a supermarket in Hainburg in Bruck an der Donau district, police said.The Slovaks, aged 23 and 34, drove towards Vienna after stealing items worth 500 Euros at the supermarket.After colliding with another car but finding their car […]
Woman run over by her own car
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A woman was run over by her own car yesterday evening (Mon) in Freistadt, Upper Austria, police said today.The 36-year-old, who wanted to park the vehicle in the underground garage of her apartment building, had been walking down to open the garage door when her car began rolling towards her.Unaware of what was happening until […]