http://www.austrianews.co.uk Austrian News - the short news from Austria Tue, 13 May 2008 04:33:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As the Football Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland is coming closer and closer, a drastic increase of Austrian flags on the streets is discoverable. Such a patriotic development was a thorn in the flesh of some politicans and lawyers. They have warned enthusiastic Austrians through the medias, that it's not allowed ... http://www.austrianews.co.uk/2008/05/13/football-fans-are-allowed-to-show-austrian-flag/ Yesterday local politicans of Graz were discussing if it should be legal to use mobile phones in public transports in their provincial capital of Styria. The answer was unmistakable and crystal clear. It is a crime, and it's going to be prohibited. The prime mover of the "mobile phone prohibition" is Graz ... http://www.austrianews.co.uk/2008/05/09/dont-you-dare-to-use-mobile-phones-in-graz/ Austrian midwifes criticize the high amount of Caesarean operations. Every fourth baby in Austria is born that way. The federal state of Burgenland in the leader of Caesarean operations. The midwifes in Austria are not happy with such a development. "Soon every second baby is born by Caesarean operation", moans a speaker of ... http://www.austrianews.co.uk/2008/05/08/austrian-midwifes-against-caesarean-operations/ 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 ... http://www.austrianews.co.uk/2008/05/07/australian-tourist-went-mad-in-viennese-youth-hostel/ If all those horrible things, which recently happened in Austria, have something positive, it's a political discussion about a harder punishment for child abusers and sex offenders. Now also Freedom Party chairman Heinz Christian Strache promised to fight for a harder punishment for sex maniacs. Strache demands: "No freedom for child ... http://www.austrianews.co.uk/2008/05/06/hc-strache-no-freedom-for-child-abusers/ 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 ... http://www.austrianews.co.uk/2008/05/06/10-months-prison-for-raping-4-year-old-girl-several-times/ 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 ... http://www.austrianews.co.uk/2008/05/04/westenthaler-there-is-something-wrong-with-the-law-in-austria/ 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 ... http://www.austrianews.co.uk/2008/05/03/the-childhood-of-josef-fritzl/ 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 ... http://www.austrianews.co.uk/2008/05/03/fritzls-new-life-in-prison-death-threats-and-fear/ 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 ... http://www.austrianews.co.uk/2008/05/02/josef-fritzl-was-a-serial-sexual-offender-in-the-60s/