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« Reply #550 on: March 06, 2020, 12:21:44 AM »

#9:

The first woman who killed a man this year:

https://www.oe24.at/oesterreich/chronik/steiermark/Messer-Mord-in-der-Steiermark-Opfer-37-verblutet/420219784

A 32-year old Austrian woman stabs to death her 37-year old Bosnian boyfriend. She only turned herself in a day after he bled to death.

It is not yet known if the „Austrian“ woman has Balkan origins as well or not ...

Namibian origin.
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« Reply #551 on: April 26, 2020, 12:04:05 AM »

Crime has dropped by more than 50% in the last month since the lockdown on March 16:

https://www.oe24.at/oesterreich/chronik/50-Prozent-weniger-Kriminalitaet-im-Corona-Monat/427250042

There were 2 murders, compared with 6 last year.

A man killed his 80+ year old father and another man his 80+ year old mother.
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« Reply #552 on: June 06, 2020, 03:51:12 AM »

Someone's driving around in Carinthia right now, shooting people dead at different locations:

https://kaernten.orf.at/stories/3052022

2 victims already, one woman among them.
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« Reply #553 on: June 06, 2020, 06:07:54 AM »

Agh, had one of those here almost 10 years ago to the day.
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« Reply #554 on: June 06, 2020, 08:55:28 AM »

Someone's driving around in Carinthia right now, shooting people dead at different locations:

https://kaernten.orf.at/stories/3052022

2 victims already, one woman among them.

Agh, had one of those here almost 10 years ago to the day.

This is also very uncommon here.

Anyway, it was a relationship crime and not something random:

A 60-year old man from Carinthia first killed his ex-wife (62) in her home with an axe.

He then went to another town and shot+killed his current girlfriend (56) out of his car. The woman was walking on the street and was instantly killed. A small child nearby had to witness the killing.

The police was called and all streets and highways were closed, but the man still somehow managed to get across the border into Italy (maybe before, because the border is not far away).

At a parking lot, Italian (or Austrian ?) police spotted the car and approached the suspect in his car. The suspect gave 3 warning shots out of his car. As police officers came closer, he shot himself fatally.

It is rumoured that the suspect is also a police officer.

https://www.oe24.at/oesterreich/chronik/kaernten/Zwei-Frauen-in-Kaernten-hingerichtet/432695601
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« Reply #555 on: June 06, 2020, 11:37:36 AM »

Someone's driving around in Carinthia right now, shooting people dead at different locations:

https://kaernten.orf.at/stories/3052022

2 victims already, one woman among them.

Agh, had one of those here almost 10 years ago to the day.

This is also very uncommon here.

Anyway, it was a relationship crime and not something random:

A 60-year old man from Carinthia first killed his ex-wife (62) in her home with an axe.

He then went to another town and shot+killed his current girlfriend (56) out of his car. The woman was walking on the street and was instantly killed. A small child nearby had to witness the killing.

The police was called and all streets and highways were closed, but the man still somehow managed to get across the border into Italy (maybe before, because the border is not far away).

At a parking lot, Italian (or Austrian ?) police spotted the car and approached the suspect in his car. The suspect gave 3 warning shots out of his car. As police officers came closer, he shot himself fatally.

It is rumoured that the suspect is also a police officer.

https://www.oe24.at/oesterreich/chronik/kaernten/Zwei-Frauen-in-Kaernten-hingerichtet/432695601

A few corrections and updates:

The perpetrator was not 60, but 63.

The first woman killed was not his ex-wife, but his wife and it was their house.

The man probably had a history of domestic abuse and had been ordered to leave their home several times already.

The 2nd woman killed on the street was either his current girlfriend, but more likely a former girlfriend (reports vary).

The 5-year old girl who witnessed the execution was the niece of the woman.

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He then escaped across the border to Italy (which is possible, because Italy allows Austrians to enter again, but not vice versa).

Over in Italy, the guy drank a coffee (!) in a restaurant after he just murdered 2 women.

Italian police approached him when he was back in his car.

Before he shot and killed himself, he was calling his daughter and confessed the 2 murders to her (the police officers heard the phone call and the confession).

So sad.

It is unclear if the perpetrator is an Austrian or Italian.

The gun was owned illegally.

The perpetrator was probably no cop, as rumours have implied.
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« Reply #556 on: June 07, 2020, 02:26:17 AM »

A Vienna police officer has been suspended after abusing a homeless person in March.

A letter from a witness has been sent to a newspaper journalist explaining the incident, in which the police officer sprayed pepperspray on his gloves and wiped over the person's face a few times. The person was on the street outside a homeless shelter and probably intoxicated or something.



https://wien.orf.at/stories/3052069
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« Reply #557 on: June 14, 2020, 02:12:52 AM »

Upper Austrian police has shot and killed a man tonight.

https://ooe.orf.at/stories/3053081

Not much is known yet, other than the man deliberately shooting at the incoming police cars - targeting the drivers:



It is strongly suspected that the man wanted to die of "suicide by cop".

It looks as if the man told his wife, neighbour and pastor that he wanted to die, if necessary by police.

After he left home yesterday night with his rifle and handgun and drove away, his wife called the police. After they spotted the car, the man shot at the police and was eventually hit fatally.

Even though it involved police in Upper Austria, the police in Lower Austria has been tasked with the investigation.

That's because if a shot is fired by a police officer from one state, police from another state is tasked with the investigation for neutrality reasons.
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« Reply #558 on: June 14, 2020, 02:22:41 AM »

Upper Austrian police has shot and killed a man tonight.

Looks like the police officers did everything right:

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Deadly shootout with police

In Altmünster, a 50-year-old man was killed in an exchange of fire with the police during the night of Sunday.

The 50-year-old from the Altmünster area announced to several people that he wanted to harm himself. Then he put a rifle and a handgun in his car and drove off. The man had both weapons at home - whether legal is still unclear. Relatives alerted the police and the police searched for the man with patrols and cell phone tracing. In Altmünster, a patrol finally discovered the car of the person.

The police tried to stop the man, but the 50-year-old completely ignored it. Finally an officer fired a shot at a rear tire, forcing the man to stop his car. He jumped out of his car and immediately opened fire on the police bus. Several shots hit the windshield. Miraculously, the two officers remained largely unharmed. Only the driver was slightly injured on the wrist.

The police bus passenger, an official of the service dog squadron, returned fire to the 50-year-old and hit him several times. The man died on site. The investigation is now - as is common in such cases - carried out by the Lower Austria State Criminal Police Office for reasons of impartiality.

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« Reply #559 on: June 17, 2020, 11:12:31 PM »

Austria Man Fined for Farting 'With Full Intent' at Police

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A man in Vienna has been fined 500 euros ($565) for breaking wind loudly in front of police — a move that the Austrian capital's police force was at pains to defend on Tuesday.

The Österreich newspaper reported that the fine stemmed from an incident on June 5 and that the offender was fined for “offending public decency."

City police wrote on Twitter that “of course no one is reported for accidentally ‘letting one go.'” They added that the man had behaved “provocatively and uncooperatively” during an encounter with officers that preceded the incident.

He got up from a park bench, looked at officers and “let go a massive intestinal wind apparently with full intent,” they said. “And our colleagues don't like to be farted at so much.”

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/06/16/world/europe/ap-eu-austria-farting-fine.html
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« Reply #560 on: June 18, 2020, 08:21:30 AM »

Well that certainly caused a bit of a stink Smiley
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« Reply #561 on: July 03, 2020, 03:03:33 PM »

A 31-year old Austro-Turk woman was strangled to death by her Austro-Turk husband in Tyrol.

He then threw her body into the Inn river. The body was now found and recovered.



https://www.oe24.at/oesterreich/chronik/tirol/Frauenleiche-im-Inn-gefunden-Ist-es-Mordopfer-von-Imst/436238799
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« Reply #562 on: July 04, 2020, 12:59:52 PM »

A 31-year old Austro-Turk woman was strangled to death by her Austro-Turk husband in Tyrol.

He then threw her body into the Inn river. The body was now found and recovered.



https://www.oe24.at/oesterreich/chronik/tirol/Frauenleiche-im-Inn-gefunden-Ist-es-Mordopfer-von-Imst/436238799

The body has been found and recovered from the river very close to the residence of former Atlas poster Cranberry.
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« Reply #563 on: December 21, 2020, 11:36:32 AM »

There have been 10 murder cases in Vienna this year, with 15 killed victims.

This is about half the long-term average of murder victims, but there have also been years with just 10 people murdered (one of the lowest murder rates for a city of 2 million).

The 10 cases include 8 where one killer killed one victim, one case in which a mother of Nepalese origin killed her 3 children and a Macedonian-Albanian Muslim terrorist who killed 4 (and severely injured 23 others).

https://wien.orf.at/stories/3081858/
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« Reply #564 on: December 27, 2020, 09:44:34 AM »

A 25-year old woman, a Spanish student, has been murdered in Upper Austria today by her 29-year old Spanish boyfriend.

She lived in the house of her 39-year old Spanish sister and Austrian husband and 8-year old daughter.

The boyfriend was visiting from Spain.

The 8-year old daughter went to the neighbouring house and called her grandfather for help.

Together, the 2 Austrian men apprehended the Spanish suspect until police arrived.

https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000122791144/25-jaehrige-studentin-in-oberoesterreich-getoetet-verdaechtiger-festgenommen
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« Reply #565 on: December 28, 2020, 01:12:52 AM »

A 25-year old woman, a Spanish student, has been murdered in Upper Austria today by her 29-year old Spanish boyfriend.

She lived in the house of her 39-year old Spanish sister and Austrian husband and 8-year old daughter.

The boyfriend was visiting from Spain.

The 8-year old daughter went to the neighbouring house and called her grandfather for help.

Together, the 2 Austrian men apprehended the Spanish suspect until police arrived.

https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000122791144/25-jaehrige-studentin-in-oberoesterreich-getoetet-verdaechtiger-festgenommen

Correction:

The 25-year old victim was originally from Honduras (but might have had Spanish citizenship) and was a student, Spanish/English/German teacher for Austrian kids and babysitter.



https://lernfamilie.at/nachhilfelehrer/l/497/

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« Reply #566 on: December 28, 2020, 03:43:16 AM »

A 25-year old woman, a Spanish student, has been murdered in Upper Austria today by her 29-year old Spanish boyfriend.

She lived in the house of her 39-year old Spanish sister and Austrian husband and 8-year old daughter.

The boyfriend was visiting from Spain.

The 8-year old daughter went to the neighbouring house and called her grandfather for help.

Together, the 2 Austrian men apprehended the Spanish suspect until police arrived.

https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000122791144/25-jaehrige-studentin-in-oberoesterreich-getoetet-verdaechtiger-festgenommen

Correction:

The 25-year old victim was originally from Honduras (but might have had Spanish citizenship) and was a student, Spanish/English/German teacher for Austrian kids and babysitter.



https://lernfamilie.at/nachhilfelehrer/l/497/

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The 29-year old Honduras-Spaniard has confessed to the murder of the 25-year old.

https://ooe.orf.at/stories/3082581/

The woman wanted to end the relationship, after which he saw red.
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« Reply #567 on: December 28, 2020, 01:13:48 PM »

A 28-year old man killed his two daughters today in Tyrol, a few months and two years old:

https://www.oe24.at/oesterreich/chronik/tirol/mord-alarm-in-tirol-vater-soll-seine-zwei-kinder-getoetet-haben/459207434

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« Reply #568 on: December 30, 2020, 12:45:21 AM »

5 people have been murdered in Austria after the Christmas holidays, with 2 additional attempted murders:

https://www.oe24.at/oesterreich/chronik/blutige-serie-fuenf-mord-opfer-seit-lockdown-start/459331215
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« Reply #569 on: January 01, 2021, 04:53:06 AM »

Austria's New Year Baby 2021 is called "Dimo", born to a Laura in Tyrol:



Dimo was born exactly at midnight, like another unnamed baby boy in Styria.

https://www.krone.at/2309347

While births in Austria have gone down by 1% between January and September 2020, there were news reports about a baby boom starting after mid-December in several hospitals.

This would be 9 months after the first lockdown in mid-March.

We'll need to wait for official figures in February to see if this is true countrywide.
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« Reply #570 on: January 02, 2021, 10:57:17 AM »

338 traffic-related deaths last year.

-19% compared to 2019.

And the lowest number since records began again after WW2.

Incredible that 50 years ago, in the 1970s, there were almost 3.000 road deaths.

https://www.kleinezeitung.at/oesterreich/5917742/19-Prozent-weniger_Starker-Rueckgang_338-Verkehrstote-in
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« Reply #571 on: January 02, 2021, 11:02:56 AM »

No actual numbers yet, but 2020 was probably among the 3 least murderous years in Austria.

Probably 25-50 victims.

For a rate of 0.3-0.6 per 100.000 (USA: 5 per 100.000 people).

That would be less than 1/10th the US murder rate.
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« Reply #572 on: January 04, 2021, 09:37:29 AM »

Austrians bought a record amount of new handguns, rifles and used weapons last year:

https://www.krone.at/2310994
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« Reply #573 on: January 04, 2021, 05:11:57 PM »

Interesting, I've never heard of the idea of a New Year's Baby before! I assume that that's simply the first-recorded child born in the country in a given year? Do other countries publicize their NY Babies as well? (I'm off to Wikipedia now  Tongue)
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« Reply #574 on: January 05, 2021, 12:36:57 PM »

Interesting, I've never heard of the idea of a New Year's Baby before! I assume that that's simply the first-recorded child born in the country in a given year? Do other countries publicize their NY Babies as well? (I'm off to Wikipedia now  Tongue)

It's very common here.

A tradition.
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