Prisoners at Austria’s most high security prison where incest monster Josef Fritzl is serving his life sentence brewed more than 100 pints of Christmas punch – without guards noticing. Guards admitted that the alcohol had been brewed by a group of inmates in the prison kitchen, one of the most coveted jobs where Fritzl is […]
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Austrian Olympic secretary jailed
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A top Olympic official who funded a champagne lifestyle by using the organisations cash as if it was his own has been jailed. Heinz Jungwirth, former long standing Secretary General of the Austrian Olympic Committee (ÖOC), has been sentenced to five years in prison for embezzlement and ordered to pay a fine of 1.5 million […]
Fritzl jail strike threat
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Wardens at the Austrian jail housing cellar monster Josef Fritzl are threatening strike action claiming they are overworked and underpaid. The 300 staff at Austria’s Krems-Stein jail which contains almost 900 seriously disturbed inmates say they have reached breaking point. The prison’s staff council spokesman Harald Gerstl said: “Many of us simply cannot go on. […]
A 50-year-old woman from Lower Austria has received a suspended jail sentence for shooting an elderly woman by accident. The 77-year-old woman was at the offender’s home to have her hair done before attending a birthday party. She was hit by a bullet into the neck while sitting under a hood drier when the hobby […]
Radical Islamist is at it again
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A young Austrian sentenced to jail for endorsing terrorism may face charges after championing radical Islam just weeks after being released from prison. Mohammed M. was ordered to spend four years behind bars in 2007 after mulling over a terror attack in Austria during the Euro2008 football tournament in an online video. He was released […]
Four prisoners escaped this (Fri) morning from Hirtenberg prison in Lower Austria’s Baden district. Two of them were caught 20 minutes after their escape, a grand scale search for the other two is being conducted by a joint effort of 80 justice officials and police staff and a helicopter from the interior ministry. The four […]
‘Woodsman’ gets life in jail
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A 49-year-old man who lived in a forest for years has been sentenced to life in jail for attempted murder. Friedrich Osterbauer nearly killed a prostitute at a brothel during an outing from a prison in Graz where he served a term for various criminal offences. The offender was allowed to spend every other weekend […]
Hollywood star and Chanel poster girl Blake Lively has admitted being ashamed for not speaking any French. The actress said today (Fri) she rented a house in southern France to learn the language. “I’m feeling embarrassed about not understanding a single French word but being a Chanel model at the same time,” she told Austrian […]
Viennese machete man in court
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A 44-year-old man has been ordered to spend the rest of his life in a clinic for mentally deranged criminals after attacking police officers with a machete. A special unit stormed the housing estate he lived in when a neighbour rang the police for help. The 26-year-old told police in Vienna-Leopoldstadt he had been physically […]
Runaway prisoner caught in Vienna
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A convicted felon on the run from prison was rearrested after he had got picked up during a traffic check, police reported today (Tues). Police in Vienna-Floridsdorf found out that the 27-year-old man had bunked from a jail a few weeks ago. They checked his ID after he had given contradictory statements about who owned […]