21-year-old man from Armenia bit Austrian police woman in finger

A very aggressive man from Armenia was arrested in the city of Innsbruck. The detention was characterized by a lot of violence. Four police man and woman were injured during the official act. One police woman sustained heavy injuries on her finger. The Armenian tried to bite off a part of her fingertip.

But that was not enough. The aggressor also smashed the side window of the police car with his head and injured three other policeman who tried to calm him down. It took quite a while and many police forces to get him into the prison cell. Now

Transsexual teacher is allowed to teach in Vienna

The anxiety among the parents was huge. A transsexual teacher should educate their children in a Viennese school. Massive protests were the consequence. The transsexual teacher should leave the school.

Now the Education Secretary exercised her authority. The transsexual teacher is allowed to stay and teach the pupils. The Education Secretary explains: “Transsexuality is not a communicable disease. The pupils does not need to be protected in that case.”

Also the assistant federal chairwoman of the transgender community in Austria is relieved. “Qualification is the most important thing for a teacher. Not the appearance”, she said.

Source: Austria News

Tourism in Upper Austria with a clear minus in overnight stays

The federal state of Upper Austria has a problem with its tourism industry. The overnight stays experience a dramatic decrease. There was a minus of 4,2 percent between May and July. In numbers: 10.000 visitors fewer with a minus of 92.000 over night stays.

There is no difference between domestic and foreign guests. The interesting thing about this statistics is the fact that almost all other provinces in Austria have increasing guests and overnight stays. For example Vienna has an increase of even 13 percent in arrivals. The reason why Upper Austria is doing so bad is unknown. Critical observers

Town sign defiled: 50-year-old Carinthian arrested

A 50-year-old Carinthian man was arrested because he has defiled one of the new bilingual town signs with a white varnish spray.

There was a long discussion about bilingual town signs in Carinthia. Since the end of the second world war Carinthians consider the deployment of bilingual town signs. The first of them were positioned at the beginning of the 70′s, but removed after just several days. A new dicussion lasted until 2010.

Now those town signs are here again, and already defiled by a 50-year-old Carinthian. After so many years and decades of discussions. The anger is enormous. The

Soldiers song in retirement home

Discomposure in the Freedom party. Freedom parties borough chairman of Viennas district Brigttenau indicates in one of his press releases that members of the Socialdemocrats sang the German soldiers song “Lilli Marleen” during the celebrations in a retirement home.

The song “Lilli Marleen” was written by the German soldier poet Hans Leip during the first world war in April 1915 before his departure to the Eastern Front.

The politican wrote in such a context about a scandal in inverted commas. He thinks that political sleaze watchdogs and anti-fascists would usually appear on the scene, if somebody else as the Socialdemocrats

Toilet fight between Russian man and Albanian family in Austria

A bizarre toilet fight between one Russian man and an Albanian family took place in the province of Tirol. Both parties to the dispute were discordant in the use of a toilet on the motorway service area Gries.

The 52-year-old Russian knocked the 62-year-old Albanian family patriarch down with one stroke. Then the son of the 62-year-old Albanian became active and started to batter the Russian. The Russian replied with a 70 centimeter iron stick. Now also one of the Albanian ladies got involved in the fight. At the end two persons had to be brought to hospital. The Russian

Viennese mayor outraged about election posters of Freedom party

Every time there is an election in Austria, the Freedom party is faced with loud criticism from all competitors about their way of election campaign. This time no less a figure than the mayor of Vienna seems to be very unhappy about the election posters of the Freedom party for the next election in Vienna.

Viennas mayor Häupl labeled those posters as “the worst sort of provocation.” The Freedom party wants to win some votes with following sentence: “More courage for Viennese blood – too much foreign is not good.”

Freedom party man Kickl, who usually designs Freedom party posters,