Meteorologists have announced a gale warning for many parts of Austria.Experts at the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) said today (Fri) winds raging at around 100 kilometres per hour (kph) registered in mountainous areas of the province of Styria last night. They added storms of a similar scale are likely to hit Lower […]
A confectioner has received murder threats for offering cakes showing banned Nazi propaganda symbols and slogans.The Austrian Mauthausen Committee (MKÖ) a Holocaust awareness group informed police and prosecutors about Manfred Klaschkas controversial business activities earlier this week. The MKÖ was tipped off by horrified customers of the confectioner. A catalogue of previously created […]
Police pursued and overpowered a boy armed with a toy weapon, it has been revealed.Monika Pinterits, head of the Viennese childrens and teenagers attorneyship, said yesterday (Weds) police officers followed the nine-year-old after spotting him marching on a sidewalk, wearing a cowboy hat and carrying what turned out to be a plastic toy rifle. After […]
A clerk at a tobacconist’s suffered minor injuries when she was attacked by a robber with an electroshock gun.The criminal who is being sought by police asked the woman to unlock a glass showcase of lighters before striking her down with a stun gun. The 43-year-old bit the robber in the hand after […]
A 40-year-old woman suffered serious burns when she lighted a cigarette after filling a basin with petrol.The housewife was rushed to a clinic after the incident at her home in the Styrian spa town of Bad Waltersdorf (Tues).Meanwhile a 47-year-old man died three days after suffering serious burns when a petrol can exploded in woodland […]
A young resident of Vienna is suspected of having abused his girlfriend and their baby with an iron rod for weeks.The 18-year-old man was put in custody after the woman, 18, told police officers how her boyfriend had beaten her and their 18-month-old daughter for around two months. Police said today (Weds) that the young […]
A Lower Austrian confectioner faces legal consequences for offering cakes depicting Nazi era logos.Maria Enzersdorf-based businessman Manfred Klaschka was reported to the police by the Austrian Mauthausen Committee (MKÖ), an organisation focusing on keeping up the memory of the Nazis victims.Prosecutors in Wiener Neustadt are expected to press charges under the Austrian anti-Nazi propaganda law […]
Strong winds have caused substantial damage to a school in Vienna.A 50-square-metre panel of a primary schools flat roof was stripped off yesterday (Mon), police in Floridsdorf district said today. No one was injured when small fragments of the cover fell onto a nearby playground.Repair works are expected to take some more days.
A thievish teenager jumped into a pond trying to outpace a police dog.The 16-year-old was pursued by the canine after police officers on night duty observed his attempts to steal a parked moped in Vienna-Favoriten last night (Mon/Tues).The teen managed to stay clear of the dog for more than a kilometre. He leapt into a […]
Students in Austria may soon be able to graduate in Turkish.The federal education ministry of Social Democrat (SPÖ) Claudia Schmied announced today (Tues) the language may become the 14th foreign language learners in the country can pick at their final exams. Turkish has been taught as an optional subject in many secondary modern schools which […]