The Viennese police was able to catch a 12-year-old burglar in the act in a porn shop on Saturday evening. His trouser pockets were full of condoms.
The 12-year-old defended himself that “the door was open and he just walked in.” Not true, because the police was alarmed by the alarm system of the shop, confirmed the inspector. The young man was brought to the next police station and was picked up by his father.
Source: Austria News
Married couples from Tirol dislike divorces. This is the result of a research about divorce rates in Austria.
Generally it’s possible to say that the divorce rate in Austria is decreasing. The divorce mania in the past years seems to be over. The year 2009 had almost the same amount of divorces as 1999.
From 100 married couples in Tirol, 38 decide to divorce sooner or later. Austrias highest divorce rate is located in Vienna. 53 from 100 couples divorce there. Divorced marriages in Austria have an average durability of 10 years. Every third marriage in Austria which gets dicorced has
Austria has to save money. There is no doubt about that. Local politicans from the province of Upper Austria had the glorious idea to ask citizens about some suggestions for economies. The result was sobering and did not hit the taste of the politicans.
Most of the citizens mentioned political administrative bodies as dispensable. The politicans did not expect such results when they started with the surveys. Their enthusiasm about the answers staid in a frugal frame.
Federal councils are the most popular political functions Austrians would like to economize. Especially the federal council for art and culture, as well
A verdict of not guilty in the second authority was the reason of a smile in a teachers face. The educator had sex with a 17-year-old schoolgirl. The first verdict, 6 months prison, was reversed.
The defending lawyer was very happy about this decision and explained that it was correct not to proclaim a punishment. “The 17-year-old schoolgirl had no need for protection”, he confirmed. The defending lawyer elucidated that the teacher has the right of a private area of life. The exchange of endearment happened not in school, but in the private lifes of the teacher and the schoolgirl.
Hans Dichand, who was the publisher of Austrias daily newspaper “Kronen Zeitung”, died yesterday in a Viennese hospital, reaching 89 years of life. He made his newspaper with 3 million readers daily to the biggest one in Austria.
Hans Dichand was born on the 29th January 1921 as the son of a shoemaker in Graz. After an apprenticeship in a print shop, he decided to join the German navy in 1940 during the second world war as a war volunteer.
One year later he suffered a heavy injury. After the war he received a job as an editor for the
The Austrian actor and theatre director Karl Heinz Hackl wrote a very angry open letter to Freedom party leader Heinz Christian Strache. The profound aversion is really noticeable in his emotional lines.
Hackl wrote that a refusal of the Freedom party is the duty of any democratic party. “Male and female, as well as young and old Austrians, are fed up with the dirty history of Austria”, he continued. The angry actor explains that Strache enjoys to exclude many institutions: “the reds, the blacks, the greens, the church, the naughty foreigners, the people from Turkey, the people from Greece, and
The Albanian girl called Arigona Zogaj, who is living in Austria since several years and became a headliner because of her vigorous resistance of leaving Austria, is confronted with another decision to leave the country.
This time the demand note comes from the Constitutional Court and seems to be quite serious. Even her closest friend, a pastor, gave her the advise to accept the decision and return home to the Kosovo.
The young girl and her family also lost a lot of support from politicans. Only the Green party decided to keep the position and continue to fight for a
The amount of alcohol dependent women in Austria is increasing rapidly, warns the director of the Austrian Anton Proksch Institute Michael Musalek.
If this trend continues, the amount of alcohol dependent women in Austria is going to redouble. Alcohol seems to be very popular in the Alpine Republic. The country takes the top places in the international comparison.
The strongest female alcoholics are counted in the Eastern parts of Austria: the provinces of Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Styria and Burgenland. Women from Vorarlberg, Tirol and Salzburg are not so excited about beer, wine, and schnapps. Also Carinthian women have no
Tirols capital Innsbruck was the scene of a wasteful rumble between policemen and circus performers. The circus people wanted to celebrate the 26th birthday of the son of the circus director.
It turned out being a bit too loud. Police arrived on the circus ground and told the revelers to calm down. Such a claim in such an amusing atmosphere was like an insult. The circus people started to attack the policemen and made one of them unfit for duty. Two other policemen sustained dermabrasions.
Now the circus director and his son have to expect a trial. They can’t understand
Yesterday at 10:00am a 32-year-old woman from Tirol kidnapped a three months old baby in the shopping mall called “Europark” in Salzburg.
The mother of the baby got changed in a changing cubicle of a clothing shop, when the offender used the convenient time and took the baby in a Maxi Cosi infront of the changing cubicle, and escaped with the car out of the shopping mall to Tirol.
A major search operation passed unsuccessful at the beginning. The exits of the shopping mall were blocked and every person was checked. But the 32-year old was already on her way
Austrias politicans promise a new law for the gambling market in Austria.
According to the latest press release of Peoples party politican Dr. Reinhold Lopatka, the new law should be ready very soon. The politican promised that it should stop the uncontrolled growth of illegal slot machines, and increase the protection of the gamblers.
The result should be a massive reduction of slot machines in every Austrian province. An online connection for every slot machine to the federal data processing centre should guarantee a secure monitoring if there is no violation of a law.
Every gambler has the right to
