A secret FBI report into police cover-ups over the kidnapping of cellar prison victim Natascha Kampusch is due to be made public this month (April). Austrian justice officials were forced to call in neutral investigators from the US agency after Natatscha’s father Ludwig Koch accused local police of a cover up because of political interference. […]
A British teacher has died on the first day of a week-long school ski trip after falling off a four meter high stone wall after a trip to a pub and landing on his head. Austrian police said Jonathan Taylor, 44, an IT teacher at the Christ the King School in Arnold, Nottinghamshire, had been […]
Suspected ski thief arrested
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The police apparently solved several ski thefts in Obertauern, state of Salzburg. Additionally, an artillery shell was discovered when clearing out a garage in Salzburg-Maxglan yesterday (Tues). An explosives expert from the police determined that the shell is practice ammunition and no longer had a detonator. The de-mining service will remove the artillery shell. In […]
The neo-Nazi scene is decreasing in Styria (Southeastern Austria). The numbers of complaints fell. Instead, the police are more worried about Salafi extremist teenagers with migration background who stir up hatred against Jewish people. More than seven decades after the annexation of Austria to Nazi-Germany, right-wing extremism and neo-Nazism still exist in our country. Complaints […]
Demonstration for Schlesinger twins
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A demonstration will take place at the Austrian Embassy, 18 Belgrave Square in London, on 13 March 2013 at 6 p.m., to promote awareness of the tragic plight of British citizen Beth Schlesinger (nee Alexander) and her three year old twin sons Samuel and Benjamin in Vienna. During the course of the demonstration a petition […]
The father of girl in the cellar Natascha Kampusch – locked in an underground dungeon and raped for for eight-and-a-half years – has written a book accusing her kidnapper’s best friend of being his accomplice. Natascha Kampusch was 10 years old when she was snatched off the streets of Vienna and bundled into a van […]
Turks Declare Star Wars on Lego
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Turks living in Austria are calling for a boycott of Lego products after accusing it of encouraging racial hatred and prejudice. They are furious about the Lego Jabba the Hut set which they say is modelled on a holy Muslim temple and it is sacrilege to include a machine gun inside or to populate it […]
There is an end in sight for the legal battle over three houses build on an old dump ground in Rietz (Tirol). A court of appeal went along with the families and the council must now pay. After a five year long, nerve-wrecking legal battle with the municipality, the end is nigh for the three […]
Arrests in Ethiopia murder case
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Two arrests have been made over the murder of an Austrian national murdered in Ethiopia as they took part in a tour of the Nile. The 27-year-old tourist from Upper Austria was robbed and murdered whilst holidaying in Ethiopia last week. Now police in Ethiopia have arrested two suspects in the case. The two suspects […]
Plastic ice rinks a flop in Salzburg
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Ice rinks covered in a plastic substance instead of real ice have proved a flop in the Alpine city of Salzburg, Austria. Officials had chosen to use a plastic as an ice replacement despite regular freezing winter temperatures in the city. The ice rink is located on the famous Mozart Square in Salzburg’s old town […]