A Styrian farmer is suspected of having kept a mentally disabled person as a servant just weeks after another farmer from the same province was sentenced to prison for the same offence.The provincial Agriculture Chamber said today (Mon) that it planned to take the farmer from Oberkurzheim near Judenburg to court over the accusations.The […]
A besotted man was arrested after he threatened his to kill his love interest when he was rejected last night (Sun/Mon).The woman invited the 36-year-old to dinner at her home in Linz, Upper Austria, last night (Sun) after they had been dating for some time. When the 29-year-old eventually told the lovestruck man that she […]
Police are hunting a Bosnian man accused of clubbing his wife to death.Miladin G. has been on the run since what is believed to be a wild argument at the family home in Pabing-Nußdorf, Salzburg, on Saturday. The mans wife, 41, was found lying in a puddle of blood on the bedroom floor. A 50-centimetre […]
Brit skier ‘treated like a criminal’
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A skier from the United Kingdom who collided with an Austrian politician has claimed police treated him “like a criminal”.Andy Clough from Leeds did not sustain any injuries in the incident in the Schmittenhöhe ski resort, Salzburg, involving Peoples Party (ÖVP) Member of the European Parliament Othmar Karas last Monday.Karas, who fractured his lumber vertebra […]
Eight in 10 cancer kids cured
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Nearly 80 per cent of children suffering from cancer in Austria nowadays make a full recovery, it has been announced.An Austrian Childrens Cancer Charity (Österreichische Kinder-Krebs-Hilfe) said today (Mon) that 80 per cent of Austrian kids suffering from different forms of the disease 40 year ago died. The statistic has now been turned on its […]
Investigations are underway after the body of a second-hand car dealer was found in a storage hall in Vienna yesterday (Sun).Police said today the 36-year-old from former Yugoslavia was shot in the head, adding that they did not find a weapon. The corpse was discovered by his family at an industrial estate rented by the […]
A Volkswagen (VW) limousine worth 100,000 Euros which was nicked in Austria has reappeared in Romania.Specialised car theft investigators of the domestic police force said today (Fri) that they had discovered the Phaeton in a garage in the city of Petrosani. The expensive limousine was reported as stolen by its owner in Austria two weeks […]
Vienna teen missing for weeks
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A Viennese teenager has been missing for one month, police have said.Officials in the federal capital announced today (Fri) that Karin P. never returned after leaving the family home in the city centre of Vienna on 10 January.The black-haired 15-year-old, who is 155 centimetres tall, occasionally phoned her family after that day. One investigator said […]
More than 100 flat screen TVs were stolen from a parked lorry while the driver slept in its cabin.The 45-year-old driver stopped in a parking bay at a rest stop on the A1 western motorway near Roggendorf, for the night on Wednesday, police said today (Fri).Investigations were started yesterday after the man realised that all […]
Boy hit by 250-kilo slab
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An eight-year-old boy is fighting for his life after he was hit by a heavy marble plate yesterday (Thurs).Nikola Vasic suffered serious injuries when the 250-kilo object fell on his head in the hallway of a housing estate in Vienna-Simmering.Police said they are investigating over negligent bodily harm since the panel was just resting against […]