Tag: tobacconist

Serial robber collared

Post date March 25, 2011

Police in Vienna have caught a criminal who threatened staff with a knife and a pepper spray in three robberies.Investigations into the recent series of robberies at a tanning salon, a sex video shop and a tobacconist’s in the district of Leopoldstadt led to drug addict Olaf K. The 23-year-old was put in custody yesterday […]

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Newsagent beats wannabe robbers with stick

General News

Post date July 9, 2010

Would-be robbers fled in horror when their tobacconist victim began clubbing them with a bludgeon.Police in Vienna-Brigittenau said today (Fri) the 40-year-old woman grabbed the wooden stick she kept behind the counter for self protection when the duo entered the her shop.Officials said the men described by the newsagent as aged between 20 and […]

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