Newspapers from Yemen agree that the sultanate of Oman paid 16 million dollars of ransom for the Austrian kidnap victim Dominik N. (26). Four million dollars were paid to tribal leaders who worked as intermediaries. The news agency AFP confirmed the figures: apparently, 50 million dollars were paid for all three hostages. Arabian media reported […]
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Minister plans grope law change
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The story of a pervert that escaped scot free despite admitting fondling a young woman’s bottom in public could result in a change in the law in Austria. The incident shocked many people after it happened in Graz when the man groped the woman who he had never met before and was caught – but […]
A surgeon reported himself to prosecutors after a teenagers leg had to be amputated.A new experts opinion concluded that the medic may have failed to diagnose a circulatory disorder after the 15-year-old boy underwent a routine operation at the LKH Clinic in Bludenz, Vorarlberg, after a leisure time accident last month.Doctors had to remove his […]
Fake doc in court next week
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A German who faces five years behind bars for letting a woman die when he posed as a doctor will stand trial next week, it was announced today (Fri).Prosecutors will press negligent bodily harm charges against the professional actor who faked documents to be assigned as an emergency medic by institutions in Vienna and Lower […]
Pole stabs girlfriend’s ex
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A Polish man has been arrested for stabbing his girlfriends former partner.The 32-year-old was put in custody after he knifed his love rival a 28-year-old compatriot in the stomach once in the hallway of a housing estate in Vienna-Meidling yesterday evening (Mon).The victim was hospitalised with injuries described as not life-threatening by doctors.
Girl bully sentenced
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A teenager has been sentenced to pay a fine for perpetually threatening another girl on the school bus.The 15-year-old defendant was reported to the police by her victim of the same age for constantly threatening to beat her up. State prosecutors informed judges in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, yesterday (Thurs) that the offender mobbed her victim for […]
A teenage drug addict has been arrested after he forced a man to get off a train, withdraw money from a hole in the wall and hand it over.Nemanja P., 17, was tracked down after police published CCTV footage of the incident which occurred on 25 January.The young man approached his 26-year-old victim on a […]
Robber takes victim on a ride
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Police are hunting a robber who took his victim on a 20-minute train journey before forcing him to deposit money.The criminal approached the 26-year-old on a train at Handelskai station. He asked the man to hand over his wristwatch and cash but refused to let him go. The robber instead told the man to get […]
An Austrian businesswoman accused of being Bernard Madoff’s “criminal soul mate” has claimed she was a victim of the bankers illicit operations herself.Madoff was sentenced to a maximum 150 years in jail by a court in New York City in the United States for what is widely considered to be the largest so-called Ponzi scheme […]
An Afghan man was hospitalised after he was knifed by a friend yesterday evening (Mon).The 31-year-old Austrian woman attacked the man, aged 20, with a knife after an argument got out of control. The incident occurred at her flat in Innsbruck, Tyrol.The victim was transferred to a local clinic with serious wounds to his thigh.Police […]