Police probe museam theft of teeth from Strauss and Brahms

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The teeth of two of the world’s most famous composers have been stolen from their graves by a man who says he wants to start a museum. The alleged Czech thief who has boasted about his crime on the internet says he wants to now display the famous teeth and dentures he has robbed not […]

Horse on the run in Salzburg

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Salzburg’s inner-city seemed to resemble something a bit closer to the wild West recently after a horse scared by a swarm of insects that appeared suddenly, managed to break free from its coach and galloped off through the cobbled streets. The horse managed to run over 6 km before it was finally caught by police […]

Immigrants fight beggars in Salzburg

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Austrian police were called after a group of 20 young men all with an immigrant background and armed with sticks laid siege to an abandoned factory in Salzburg where a group of Gypsy beggars had taken up residence. Police have not yet commented on the reason for the altercation but have confirmed that in general […]

Court rejects frozen fish poaching case

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Judges ordered bungling police to drop a trout poaching case in Kufstein, Austria, after hearing that the defendant had been allowed to eat the only evidence. Dad Alexander Donninger, 42, had hooked a deep frozen trout he’d bought from a supermarket on a fishing rod and dangled it in a river so his seven-tear-old twins […]

Gorm-less vandals art attack

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A life-size nude sculpture by Turner Prize-winning artist Antony Gormley has had its manhood removed with an angle grinder, say police in Kanisfluh, Austria. The work – on a mountain peak at more than 6,000ft above sea level –  is one of 100 ‘suicide sculptures’ due to be returned to Britain after being on show […]

German couple face jail over frozen fish for their kids

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German dad Alexander Donninger and his wife Stefanie are facing jail after they were accused of poaching when they hung a deep frozen fish on their children’s fishing line to give them a bit of fun while on holiday in the Austrian Tyrol. The couple were with their twins Enya and Arthur aged seven and […]

Artist sparks police murder hunt

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An Austrian concept artist sparked an Interpol murder hunt when chilling photographs she’d taken of of herself posing as a corpse were sent to the police by film printers. Sigrid Fleckseder and partner Christian Thomas had taken the realistic snaps showing her apparently dead on a river bank with ripped clothing as part of a […]

Lorry driver fight escalates to knife-fight

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A disagreement between two truck drivers at a highway parking area ended in blood after one pulled out a bread knife at Weer in Tyrol. Around 21:30 the two men – one Romanian and one Bosnian – had a disagreement about a parking space, according to the police. The Bosnian, who had been having a […]

Drunk driver reports own car as stolen

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A drunk driver reported his car stolen after he forgot to take it out of gear or put on the handbrake, and the vehicle made off across a field and crashed into a wood. The out-of-control drive left the car a write off after the incident at Neuhofen an der Krems. The 51-year-old man from […]

Three drug dealers apprehended in Styria

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Burgenland police have smashed a drug ring after the arrest of a Mr Big and then a few hours later rounding up his henchmen. The three were said to have sold drugs for at least 30,000 Euros. The 25-year-old suspect not named for legal reasons was found in Styria by Burgenland police investigators, and turned […]