A convict allowed to spend the final months of his jail term at home wearing an electronic ankle shackle has been sent back to prison after having beaten up his wife.The 27-year-old man was arrested in Hohenems, Vorarlberg, and put behind bars in again in a prison in Feldkirch after his wife, 35, told police […]
More than 6,000 trucks were banned from Austrian roads so far this year, according to the federal traffic ministry.The ministry, which is headed by Social Democrat (SPÖ) Doris Bures, announced today (Tues) its Federal Traffic Authority (BAV) stopped and examined 27,600 lorries of all types and sizes since last January. It added 6,100 of them […]
Police in Leibnitz are investigating after a Turk was knifed down by a kebab shop owner yesterday (Mon).The seriously injured 34-year-old man is currently recovering at a local hospital. The suspect a 29-year-old Turkish man has been put in custody as investigations continue.Regional newspapers report that the men met to settle an ongoing […]
Watches worth a quarter of a million Euros were stolen from a jeweller in a spectacular break-in on Christmas Day (Saturday), police said today (Mon).The unidentified criminals made off with 25 watches worth an overall 250,000 Euros in the break-in at a shop in the town centre of Kitzbühel, a posh Tyrolean ski resort.The burglary […]
Body found in Styrian forest
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Hunters have discovered a putrid corpse in woodlands in Styria, it has emerged.Police in the province announced today (Mon) that a group of hunters found the possibly male body under branches in a forest near Bärnbach.An autopsy set to take place later this week should reveal the dead persons identity and the reason of his […]
Cross-country skier hits signpost
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A cross-country skier suffered serious injuries in a freak accident yesterday (Sun).The Czech tourist was cross-country skiing towards the valley in Ramsau, Styria, when he crashed against a signpost after being thrown from the marked slope as he got faster and faster.The 45-year-old suffered an open fracture to his lower right leg. He was helicoptered […]
Three earthquakes were registered near Villach last night (Mon/Tues), according to a Viennese institute.The Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) announced today that there were three minor eruptions just outside the Carinthian town at 9.50pm, 21.54pm and 0.48am. They had magnitudes ranging between 1.9 and 2.2 on the Richter scale.ZAMG explained it was unlikely […]
Plunging ice injures car passenger
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A teenager suffered a cut above his eye in a freak traffic incident yesterday (Mon).The 15-year-old was sitting in the passenger seat of a car being driven by his father near Bergheim in the province of Salzburg when a three-centimetre thick sheet of solid ice smashed through the windscreen window.The object, which was a square […]
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 […]
A Lower Austrian pensioner killed his wife before turning the gun on himself, it has been reported.Both the 80-year-old man and his wife of the same age had been suffering from serious illnesses for a long time, according to local newspapers.The couples daughter discovered her dead parents at their house in St. Valentin yesterday evening […]