Mild verdict for cheating banker due to depression

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A banker who embezzled more than six million Euros of clients’ money has been given a relatively mild sentence when judges heard he suffers from bipolar disorder.The ex-clerk – who was sacked in October 2008 – was sentenced to one year in prison at Vienna’s Criminal Court yesterday (Weds). The man has managed to disguise […]

Canadian cyclists in clinic

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Two Canadian women and a man from Lower Austria have been hospitalised after crashing into each other on their bikes.Police in Lienz, East Tyrol, said today (Thurs) the holidaymakers from overseas were going at high speed on their racing cycles when they collided with the Baden-based man on Tuesday.The trio sustained undisclosed injuries in the […]

Fake Gaddafi shocks refugees

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An Austrian artist has terrified asylum seekers by posing as Muammar al-Gaddafi.Bernhard D., an award-winning theatre actor, donned a fake sand-coloured uniform, a black wig and large sunglasses to resemble the Libyan dictator when he marched through the streets of Lampedusa. Tens of thousands of people from North Africa have arrived on the Italian island […]

Cats thrown out of driving car

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Police are investigating after a motorist tossed four kittens out of a car.Two animals survived while the other two passed away shortly after being hit by oncoming drivers who failed to stop in time, police in Traiskirchen, Lower Austria, said today (Thurs). The offender is being sought.Meanwhile, animal rights group Vier Pfoten issued a 500-Euro […]

Ten tenants hospitalised after fire

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Several residents of an apartment complex had to be treated for smoke poisoning after a blaze broke out on the building’s ground floor yesterday afternoon (Weds).The fire raged through a laundry shop in Vienna-Margareten. It is unclear what triggered the flames which subsequently filled the hallway of the whole building with smoke. Ten residents of […]

Motorcyclist killed in crash

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An elderly biker died in a head-on collision in Lower Austria this morning (Weds).The 61-year-old man lost control of his motorcycle before crashing into an oncoming truck in Klausen-Leopoldsdorf in the province’s Baden district.Paramedics reached the site of the accident within minutes, but their resuscitation attempts failed to save his life.The lorry driver did not […]

German gang chief collared

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Austrian police have arrested a man accused of masterminding a German crime syndicate.The 48-year-old was put in detention after travelling on a train from Munich to the Upper Austrian capital of Linz where he was put in detention.German police issued an international arrest warrant on the suspected head of a group of criminals specialised in […]

Poison-pen teen sentenced

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A teenage convict had his jail term extended for writing threatening letters to the president.Michael D., who currently serves time behind bars in Gerasdorf near Vienna for various youth crimes, wrote to Federal President Heinz Fischer some months ago he “would love to torture you if there is enough time.”The 17-year-old warned the former Social […]

Italian races at 210 kph in Tyrol

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An Italian driver has been caught doing more than 100 kilometres per hour (kph) above the speed limit.The 22-year-old from northern Italy had to hand over his licence after a radar trap recorded him as he bombed along a 100 kph limit stretch on Tyrol’s A13 Brenner motorway at 210 kph yesterday evening (Tues). Local […]

Bulgarian killed in motorway crash

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A Bulgarian died in a collision on Upper Austria’s A8 Innkreis motorway this morning (Thurs).Traffic police said the man was killed when the car he was travelling in crashed into an articulated truck near the Ried im Innkreis exit. Officials added that three passengers of the vehicle were hospitalised with undisclosed injuries. The lorry driver […]