Austria News

If you want to spend a silent and peaceful holiday, you should not choose a youth hostel for your accommodation.
Such a wise understanding was totally ignored by an 24-year-old tourist from Australia in Vienna.

The young man was not able to bear the noise of a whole school class, which also found a place in the […]

Austrias newspaper “Ober- österreichische Nachrichten” wrote about the childhood of Josef Fritzl in todays issue.
The second world war was over when he was 10 years old. His home town Amstetten was totally destroyed by Allied bombers, and occupied by the Russian army.

Fritzl grew up in very poor conditions, and lived alone with his mother. His […]

There is a story about the new life of Josef Fritzl in todays issue of Austrias biggest newspaper “Kronen Zeitung”.
Being in prison is not a new experience to him. At the end of the 60’s he was in prison for 18 months, because of several sexual attacks and rapes. Fritzl was also known as exhibitionist.

But […]

The first rumours about the sex crimes of Josef Fritzl in the 60’s are true.
He has raped a nurse in 1967. He entered the apartment of the nurse through a window, and sexually abused her. Now another women claims that she was also raped by the monster of Amstetten in those years, but she was […]

Austrias justice minister Maria Berger is against a hard punishment for Josef Fritzl.
“15 years are enough. 20 years the maximum”, she says.

Austrias Interior Minister Günther Platter from the Peoples Party claimed a hard punishment for sex offenders. The Socialdemocratic justice minister disagrees.
The justice minister also criticizes the behaviour of Lower Austrias minister president Erwin Pröll […]

According to Austrias biggest newspaper “Kronen Zeitung”, the 5-year-old son of Josef Fritzl Felix, was very excited about his first time in a car when he was released from his prison in the cellar, and brought to his new home with the other family members.
For you and me it’s nothing special to go to work […]

According to Austrias biggest daily newspaper “Kronen Zeitung”, Josef Fritzl has already raped a woman before he started to lock up his daughter and do the same to her.
It’s written that he has raped a woman in the city of Linz.

Fritzl was caught, brought before the court, and found guilty. But he was not thrown […]

Since last Sunday, the whole world knows his name.
The man who locked up his own daughter in the cellar for 24 years, raped, and made her pregnant 6 times.

But who is that man who can do such cruel things to his own daughter?
The 73-year-old has also seven children with his wife, and is known as […]

According to the latest news of Austrias newspapers and medias in the scandal of Amstetten, the police knew about the dungeon in the cellar.
The suspect has already received an official planning permission for this kind of cellar in the 70’s. So the authorities knew about the whole cellar. There were no secret rooms.

The planning permission […]

Yesterday the accused incest committer Josef Fritzl was talking to the police for the first time.
He admited the rapings of his daughter during the last 24 years in the cellar. One of the seven babies which were born below ground level, died during the birth. Fritzl has thrown the dead baby into the burning heating […]

New details appeared in the unbelievable dungeon incest affair of Lower Austria.
The victim, who was raped by her father the first time when she was 11 years old, tried to escape two times from her home.

The second time was in August 1984, and this was one time too much for her father. He decided to […]

Inconceivable case of incest in Austria!
A man from the Lower Austrian town of Amstetten locked up his daughter for 24 years in a cellar, and fathered her seven times.

The martyrdom started when she was 11 years old. She was raped, made pregnant, and locked up in the cellar by her own father. Officially she was […]

Was Wolfgang Prikopil the only involved committer in the kidnapping of Natascha Kampusch?
The official version of the story says “yes”, but now more and more doubts appear that Priklopil was not the only one.

Even the chief of the new “Kampusch commission” voices doubts that Wolfgang Priklopil was able to do everything alone.
In an interview in […]

A prostitute from China has killed her Chinese workmate.
The reason can be found in the commercial competition. The 47-year-old lady of pleasure from China made too much business. The other one was not happy about that, because she was not able to earn the same.

First the police and some newspapers suspected a participation of the […]

The police and the department for intelligence service and counter terrorism in Lower Austria, have discovered one of the biggest findings of firearms in Austria.
300 illegal firearms, war material, and 12.000 pieces of ammunition were found in private houses of six persons.

The police counted more than 100 pieces of heavy war material. Even Russian machine […]

A female taxi driver from Vienna was attacked by a robber with a knife.
Coincidentally a policeman came a long the road. “Help”, screamed the taxi driver, and thought she is going to be save now.

But there was one thing she hasn’t reckoned with. The policeman told her that he is busy. “Sorry, but I have […]

A 48-year-old vicar from Nigeria is confronted with serious accusations.
The African clergyman was hearing the confession of pupils from the secondary modern school in Kohfidisch, a little village of 1.500 inhabitants, in the south of Burgenland.

Now a 13-year-girl claims that she was sexually abused by the vicar during the confession. The incident happened on the […]

A very horny bakerman is living in the city of Linz.
The naughty man wanted sex with his apprentice girls. He groped their genitals several times in a day, and forced them to watch porn movies in the cellar of his bakers shop.

Now the girls had enough of their intrusive boss. They went to the official […]

The deceitful assault on the mayor of Spitz with a poisoned chocolate from Italy seems to be clarified now.
The police has arrested a 55-year-old man from Spitz. His DNA sample is exactly the same which was found on the greeting card.
The greeting card was placed with a chocolate on the car of the mayor. On […]

Two totally drunken burglars from Georgia were found sleeping with a whiskey bottle on Monday morning in a restaurant in Linz.
The two tourists broke into the restaurant, and started to search for valuable articles.

The discoveries were quite poor and valueless, and so they tried to satisfy their frustration with a whiskey bottle.
They fell asleep and […]

It seems a very strong 11-year-old boy is living in the city centre of Vienna.
From Sunday to Monday he was caught by the police when he tried to break in a kindergarten.

But when the policemen tried to arrest him, they got the shock of their lifes. The young boy turned out to be quite strong […]

A 38-year-old man from Linz lost one of his ears, because he had disagreements with his neighbours.
The reason of the quarell was a wrong telephone number.

The three neighbours were ringing the bell of their victim. When he opened the door, they pushed him into his flat, and one of the three attackers cut his ear […]

The mayor of the little Lower Austrian of Spitz an der Donau was poisened with chocolates which were filled with strychnine.
The politican found a box with those chocolates on his car with the message “You are something special to me”.

When he tried one of the chocolates he broke down and was brought to hospital. At […]

Last Saturday a 17-year-old boy from Vorarlberg was knocked down by an unknown man, because a woman did not liked his carnival costume.
The victim was sitting on the bar of a carnival party, when a woman came and started to moan about his carnival costume.

The woman told him to go outside, because a man is […]

Pupils from the Lower Austrian town of Baden, which is located close to Vienna, caused an operation of their local fire brigade.
Some of them made a fire on the second floor with toilet paper.

35 fire fighters were in action. The whole school was full of smoke and all pupils were evacuated.
It was possible to prevent […]

The violence in Viennese hospitals gets out of control.
Nurses and doctors get attacked by violent patients with fists and knifes. The Austrian news magazine “Profil” is writing about “dramatic conditions in Viennese hospitals”.

Now security forces should help to protect nurses and doctors from savage patients.
Especially during the night duties the situation for the hospital staff […]

A terrorist group of supposable mobile phone lovers in the Upper Austrian province, destroy public callboxes by blasting.
In the past days already 6 callboxes were blown up by those terrorists.
Maybe the same committers also blew up a bus shelter in the Upper Austrian village of Unterweitersdorf.

The motive for this kind of crime is still unknown. […]