An elderly Viennese man collapsed and died after he was mugged in a shop yesterday (Weds).Supermarket staff and paramedics failed to resuscitate the 63-year-old who passed out after getting worked up and panicked about his wallet being stolen by a man while he did his shopping at the store in the Alsergrund district.Reports have it […]
The former residence of incest monster Josef Fritzl will be torn down in spring 2011, it has been claimed.Newspapers report today (Tues) that Amstetten City Hall has granted liquidator Walter Anzböcks request to have the house in 40 Ybbs Street demolished within the next few months. Anzböck initially planned to sell the property to financially […]
An autopsy has been ordered after the body of a truck driver was found on the Austrian-Hungarian border.Police in the Burgenland border town of Nickelsdorf said today (Fri) the 45-year-old Turkish mans body was discovered by colleagues who forcefully opened his trucks cabin after two days at a motorway rest stop yesterday.The dead driver and […]
A top lawyer has accused the Catholic Church of focusing on damage limitation instead of trying to help the hundreds of victims of abuse at the Churchs institutions.Around 700 people got in touch with psychologists via new and existing hotlines to report their sex and violence abuse ordeals when serving as altar boys, choristers and […]
Vienna Archbishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn will preside at a “day of repentance” service today (Weds) in the wake of revelations of numerous cases of violence and sexual abuse by members of the Catholic clergy.His office said yesterday that the service at 7pm at Viennas St. Stephens Cathedral would constitute “an acknowledgement of guilt in the […]
Christoph Cardinal Schönborns announcement that Waltraud Klasnic will head a commission dealing with victims of Catholic Church abuse and violence has been met with harsh criticism.Schönborn said in a TV interview on Sunday that the former Styrian Peoples Party (ÖVP) governor will head a special commission checking on all claims and reports of sexual abuse […]
There have been 566 reports of various kinds of abuse by clergy at the Catholic Churchs ombudsmans offices this year, it was reported today (Tues).Vienna archdiocese has had the highest number, 174, followed by Innsbruck diocese with 115. More than half of them can no longer be prosecuted because of the statute of limitations.Cases of […]
A commission to investigate claims of sexual abuse within the Catholic church has named former Styrian Peoples Party (ÖVP) Governor Waltraud Klasnic as its head.Viennese archbishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn told national broadcaster ORF yesterday (Sun) he will meet Klasnic to discuss details next week.Schönborn stressed that the commission will act totally independently to clarify as […]