A young police officer shot in the head by a supermarket robber has died in hospital, according to a report from the Austrian news source Heute. Meanwhile, the Vienna Police department's official Facebook page is denying his death, and is asking media to stop spreading such rumours.
At least two policemen were wounded, one seriously, in a shootout between armed police and an alleged supermarket robber on Saturday evening in Vienna. The suspect is reported to have been killed.
Three masked robbers forced their way into the villa, tied the owners to chairs using tape, threatened them with a gun and then ransacked the villa, before fleeing.
The mysterious case of the missing penguin that disappeared from the garden of a Vienna cafe two years ago has had a happy ending after the bird suddenly re-appeared this month.
Police are hunting for a ‘polite’ bank robber who patiently waited his turn in a queue at a Bank Austria branch in Vienna on Monday afternoon before demanding cash from the teller.
Police in Bavaria, Germany were called out to an unusual robbery on Saturday after an Austrian man was spotted pinching Lego figures from the Legoland amusement park.
Most people would have known such an enterprise was doomed to fail - but not the 24-year-old man who attempted to rob a Vienna bank ‘armed’ with a stainless steel spoon.
Austrian police have released a surveillance picture of a man suspected of breaking in to a number of houses in Vienna, and stealing valuables including expensive bicycles.
Police in Vienna have arrested three Israelis and a Serbian suspected of acting as fences for the notorious international Pink Panthers jewel thieves gang.
Two female robbers who knocked their victims out with a date rape drug have been sentenced to five and four years in prison by Vienna’s Criminal Court.
