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A 27-year-old lady from Vienna fell in love with a doctor, but she was too shy to tell him her feelings from face to face. She saw her only solution in sending him SMS. Anonymous.
At first the doctor seemed to be quite flattered. Later the text messages on his mobile phones became more and more [...]

A 23-year-old man from Austrias Western province Tirol decided that he don’t want to serve the Austrian army anymore. He escaped from the barracks and tried to hide himself. But the military police found him.
Yesterday he stood trial and was convicted to a financial penalty of 4.000 Euro. In court he explained that he prefered [...]

The regional court of Innsbruck has to deal with a very humorous woman teacher who assigned her gradings according to her mood, and without any exams. Her offence is known as “abuse of authority” and “destruction of evidence”.
She also delighted her pupils with free lessons, and did not register these lessons as such ones. It [...]

Yesterday one of Austrias biggest civil trials started in Vienna. The association of consumers information blames a financial service provider that investors received the wrong consulting.
The association of consumers acts for more than 2.500 investors who lost more than 30 million Euro. Medias report that the accused financial service provider sold shares and claimed that [...]

Ten animal rights activists are accused by the public prosecution department of the Lower Austrian town of Wiener Neustadt, that they have built a criminal organisation. The demand for a penalty comprises 218 pages.
The public prosecution department even uses the “Mafia paragraph” 278a criminal code. The impeachment includes malicious criminal property damage, compulsion, and cruelty [...]

A 57-year-old man from Vorarlberg has to go to prison for two years. He has threatened a man in Vienna with a knife, and captured one single Euro out of his raid. The sentence is not legally valid.
The 57-year-old wanted to make holiday from his wife, and went from Vorarlbergs province to the vibrant capital [...]

A simple beer can was the reason for a murder in Vienna. Now two men have to stand their trial, because they were involved in the killing of a homeless man for a can of beer.
The 24-year-old main defendant is talking about self-defence. He explained he was attacked by the 50-year-old homeless man because of [...]

Yesterday started the first day of the trial against Josef Fritzl in Lower Austrias provincial capital St. Pölten. Fritzl showed himself quite shy. He was hiding his face behind a blue filing folder.
He tried to ignore journalists and gave absolutely no comments. During the trial he has told the judge about his childhood. He was [...]

Divorce and problems with the son because of his new girlfriend. A policeman from Vienna was searching for diversion from his everyday life agonies, and found his luck with young prostitutes in brothels.
But the 44-year-old policeman was not happy about the cost for such kind of services. He decided not to pay, and told lies [...]

Lack of respect and violence against a Viennese teacher turned out to be a hard fate for a 17-year-old teenager. He was sentenced to an imprisonment of 4 years.
The young man was involved in a physical controversy with a teacher, and put him through the mangle. The educator suffered a scratch contused wound, several bruises, [...]

Lower Austrias provincial capital of St. Pölten will be the venue of the Josef Fritzl trial in two weeks. The arrangements in the town and the court house are enormous.
It seems the whole world is interested in the case, and the 50.000 inhabitant town is going to be overcrowded with media representatives from far and [...]

A homosexual man from Vienna went to court one more time, because he wants to be a tram driver or a lot of money. In April he already won the first trial against a tram operator, but all of his wishes were not fulfilled.
The homosexual Viennese was already working as tram driver, but lost his [...]

There was trial yesterday against a violent bird breeder from East Tirol. He has threatened the local veterinary in a letter that he is going to beat the living daylights out of him.
The violent bird breeder is the brother of the famous poacher Pius Walder, who was shot in 1982 in the Villgratental valley.

The judge [...]

A young man from Graz was sentenced to a conditional imprisonment for three months, because he demanded a brothel of sheep in the city park of Graz.
Such an idea fulfils the statement of facts for sodomy and sedition. The young man renounced an appeal. Therefore the judgement has the force of law.

The son of a [...]

Yesterday started the trial against the fivefold axe murder, who wiped out his whole family. The 39-year-old man from Vienna can expect to stay in prison for the next 20 years.
The murderer himself demanded a life imprisonment. He told that he did not expect to have “such a nice life in prison”. His wife, daughter, [...]

New details in the incest drama of Amstetten reports the Austrian magazine “NEWS”. According to a NEWS journalist, the daughter of Josef Fritzl and their children, were not the only ones who were locked up in the Fritzl family.
Also the mother of Josef Fritzl became a victim of her own son. She was locked in [...]

Yesterday the trial about the kidnapping of Natascha Kampusch found its proceeding in the Styrian town of Gleisdorf. A guy called “Martin Wabl” claims that the mother of Natascha Kampusch was involved in the kidnapping.
He wanted to present his means of evidence. The mother of Natascha Kampusch, Brigitta Sirny, is not happy about such accusations, [...]

19 years instead of life imprisonment. The two so called “killer nurses” are happy about an unexpected release from prison.
In April 1989 both women were arrested and accused of killing 20 patients in the Viennese hospital “Lainz”.

It turned out that they have killed their patients by “mouth care”, infusions, and injections, if the people in [...]

A lot of people are not happy about the mild justice for dangerous criminals in Austria.
But this time a dangerous criminal himself moans about a too mild sentence for his act. The man from Turkey has killed an 58-year-old man with a gun in Lower Austria and cut his penis off, because he was smiling [...]

Another strange court decision in context to child abuse is reported in todays Austrian newspaper “Kronen Zeitung”.
A 55-year-old man was sentenced to a prison term of 10 months for raping a 4-year-old girl several times. Even employees of the court house were shaking their heads after such a decision. As the man already spent 10 [...]

In todays “Pressestunde”, a TV-show with a politican and two journalists, shown every Sunday morning on Austrian TV, the BZÖ politican of the “orange party” Peter Westenthaler, was talking about the Austrian law in relation to the incest crime of Amstetten.
He said that there is something wrong with the law in Austria. There must be [...]

A woman from Salzburg gave her neighbour a box of chocolate.
Today she has to appear before a court, because the public prosecution department of Salzburg thinks giving a special type of chocolate fulfils the criminal offence of an harmful threat.

According to Austrian medias the woman has to expect one year prison.
Two months ago a mayor [...]

The Styrian judge Martin Wabl claims that the mother of Natascha Kampusch was involved in the kidnapping of her own daughter.
After his yesterday performance in court, he is allowed to expose his proof of the truth about that case in court.

The mother of Natscha Kampusch is not happy about such plans. She demands a prohibitory [...]

The Muslim believer created videos which he published on the internet platform YouTube, and threatened the Austrian government with terror.
Now being in court everything sounds a bit different. “It was a misunderstanding and he never wanted to kill humans”, he said.
His wife was excluded from the trial, because she don’t wanted to take off her [...]

A peculiar trial is going on in the Carinthian town of Spittal an der Drau.
A 12-year-old pupil has arraign his female teacher to court, because she has hurt his middle finger. Before the “finger attack”, the pupil has presented his outstretched middle finger to the teacher during a lesson.

The case happened during a German lesson. [...]

The 60-year-old man from Vienna who is working as an actor and director in the Austrian movie scene, seems to have a serious problem with Austrias federal state of Carinthia.
During a TV show he called the inhabitants of Carinthia “dumb” and “cretins”.

Now he has to face an action at law from a 16-year-old Carinthian boy [...]

A 16-year-old boy from a town in Styria had to appear in court, because he declared to kill his parents.
The reason of his anger was the little amount of pocket money.
He asked his parents for more financial support. The parents refused. The 16-year-old started to riot in the house, destroyed doors and the mobile phone [...]

Usually drug dealers try to avoid the police, but in that case drug dealers were crying for help, because one of them was attacked by a fist fighter.
Now a 30-year-old man from Carinthia has to go to prison for 4 years and 6 months, because he has attacked a drug dealer in Graz.

There was a [...]

A very mild judiciary met a Turkish woman in Innsbruck today, who wanted to kill her former boyfriend with two knifes.
The woman was sentenced to a monetary penalty of 720 EUR.

During this years spring time, she attacked her former boyfriend in an underground carpark with two knifes. One knife was 20 centimeter long. In total [...]

According to the new decision of the Court of Chancery, ticket inspectors are allowed to hold people in public transports and check their tickets.
So far Austrian ticket inspectors were not allowed to hold fare dodgers. If a fare dodger run away and escaped, the ticket inspector was not allowed to chase him.

Now this law was [...]