An Austrian may have spent nearly 20 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Manfred B. called the police after discovering the body of prostitute Heidemarie Mayerhofer at her flat in Salzburg in November 1980. The pimp, who was 29 at the time, was considered a suspect when police were told he […]
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A car thief tried to escape police doing 200 kilometres per hour (kph) yesterday (Thurs) on the A1 motorway in Salzburg. Europe-wide investigators reported that the Polish man who had stolen a luxury car worth at least 45,000 Euros in Switzerland shortly before, overtook other vehicles on the service lane and the green area of […]
Neymar on role models and racing
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Neymar da Silva Santos Junior (Neymar) has revealed a national team colleague as his biggest idol. The striker told Red Bulletin magazine: “I still consider myself a fan now and then. Especially Robinho is my hero.” Robinho currently plays for AC Milan in Italy’s Serie A league. The ex-Real Madrid star, 27, and Neymar could […]
Hungarian dies in car crash
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A 23-year-old Hungarian died when his car was slashed into two pieces in a crash yesterday evening (Sun). The man came off the road in Eben in Salzburg’s Pongau area. A 31-year-old man who was in the passenger seat survived the accident with cuts and bruises. A young Austrian was killed in a car crash […]
Snow chaos in western Austria
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An early appearance of winter has hit vast parts of the country with full force. Snowfall brought railway traffic to a halt in Salzburg yesterday (Mon). More than 200 passengers were trapped in trains for hours after trees collapsed under the weight of the snow and landed on the tracks. No one was injured in […]
Free entry with free card in Salzburg
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The travel desk has had a reminder for anybody hoping to finally start to enjoy the summer weather which has arrived very late this year that the free “Seenland Card” is still available and valid until the end of September. The card can be picked up for free at all of the following locations by […]
A 45-year-old woman from Vienna died when a car plummeted over a 300-metre embankment in the Salzburg Alps yesterday (Sun). Two other passengers of the vehicle were injured in the accident. Local newspapers write today that a woman suffered serious injuries while a man got away with nothing but cuts and bruises. The incident reportedly […]
German police and the Austrian foreign ministry are investigating after a chopped-up body found in a river in Berlin was identified as an Austrian. Investigators in the capital city of Germany want to await the results of a DNA check. However, they announced today (Weds) that a friend of Raoul Schmidhuber, 31, identified the torso […]
An elderly motorist is recovering in hospital after ploughing into a row of parked cars. The 80-year-old man crashed into the vehicles at a taxi rank in the city of Salzburg yesterday evening (Thurs) after an overtaking manoeuvre. He had to be hospitalised. Officials in the city said today that another person – a cab […]
Duo in clinic after plane crash
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Two Germans have been injured after their light aircraft crashed near Mauterndorf. Police in the province of Salzburg said the pair were hospitalised after the incident this morning (Weds). They explained that the pair had been the only ones on board the Cessna light aircraft which plunged to the ground around one kilometres from the […]