https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Police in Vienna have arrested an 18-year-old man who together with a friend robbed his own mother during an armed burglary in January. https://www.thelocal.at/20170203/armed-robber-turns-out-to-be-victims-own-son Fri, 03 Feb 2017 13:20:24 +0100 armed-robber-turns-out-to-be-victims-own-son 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20160703/policeman-23-dies-after-gunfight-with-robber Sun, 03 Jul 2016 13:35:22 +0200 policeman-23-dies-after-gunfight-with-robber 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20160702/shootout-at-billa-in-vienna-leaves-two-seriously-injured-armed-robbery-wega Sat, 02 Jul 2016 22:34:57 +0200 shootout-at-billa-in-vienna-leaves-two-seriously-injured-armed-robbery-wega 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20160628/vienna-banker-robbed-in-home-invasion Tue, 28 Jun 2016 14:22:07 +0200 vienna-banker-robbed-in-home-invasion 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20160523/guilty-penguin-thieves-return-statue-to-vienna-cafe Mon, 23 May 2016 12:37:36 +0200 guilty-penguin-thieves-return-statue-to-vienna-cafe Austria’s version of Bonnie and Clyde have been arrested this week accused of carrying out armed raids on five banks over a two year period. https://www.thelocal.at/20160422/austrias-answer-to-bonnie-and-clyde-arrested-this-week Fri, 22 Apr 2016 13:12:28 +0200 austrias-answer-to-bonnie-and-clyde-arrested-this-week 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20160112/polite-bank-robber-waited-in-queue Tue, 12 Jan 2016 13:28:12 +0100 polite-bank-robber-waited-in-queue An elderly couple have been murdered at their home in Vienna’s Donaustadt, according to a report on Austrian broadcaster ORF. https://www.thelocal.at/20150522/brutal-double-murder-in-viennas-donaustadt Fri, 22 May 2015 10:04:08 +0200 brutal-double-murder-in-viennas-donaustadt A suspected thief jumped onto the underground train tracks at Vienna’s Kettenbrückengasse station on Monday morning and was hit by an U4 train. https://www.thelocal.at/20150413/fleeing-bag-thief-hit-by-u4-metro-train-in-vienna Mon, 13 Apr 2015 13:20:55 +0200 fleeing-bag-thief-hit-by-u4-metro-train-in-vienna 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20150407/austrian-dad-steals-120-lego-figures-on-day-out Tue, 07 Apr 2015 13:46:51 +0200 austrian-dad-steals-120-lego-figures-on-day-out 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20150304/man-attempts-bank-robbery-armed-with-spoon Wed, 04 Mar 2015 16:16:00 +0100 man-attempts-bank-robbery-armed-with-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. https://www.thelocal.at/20150216/police-hunt-selfie-bandit Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:52:48 +0100 police-hunt-selfie-bandit Police in Vienna have arrested three Israelis and a Serbian suspected of acting as fences for the notorious international Pink Panthers jewel thieves gang. https://www.thelocal.at/20150210/pink-panther-fences-arrested-in-vienna Tue, 10 Feb 2015 13:26:00 +0100 pink-panther-fences-arrested-in-vienna A traditional jewellers shop near Graz's main square was robbed on Tuesday morning by three armed robbers wearing masks. https://www.thelocal.at/20150210/three-masked-armed-robbers-hit-graz-jeweller Tue, 10 Feb 2015 12:51:00 +0100 three-masked-armed-robbers-hit-graz-jeweller 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20150202/women-used-rape-drug-to-rob-men Mon, 02 Feb 2015 11:40:00 +0100 women-used-rape-drug-to-rob-men An upmarket jewellery shop in Vienna’s 1st district was robbed on Thursday afternoon by two masked men who attacked and injured a security guard. https://www.thelocal.at/20141219/vienna-jewellery-shop-robbed-at-gunpoint Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:10:28 +0100 vienna-jewellery-shop-robbed-at-gunpoint A man wearing a clown mask carried out a botched armed robbery on a tobacco shop in Linz on Wednesday, according to police. https://www.thelocal.at/20141022/clown-robber-injured-tobacco-shop-employee Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:43:00 +0200 clown-robber-injured-tobacco-shop-employee A bank robber described by the judge as “particularly brazen” has been sentenced to nine years in prison by Vienna’s Criminal Court. https://www.thelocal.at/20140807/prisoner-robbed-banks-on-day-release Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:57:37 +0200 prisoner-robbed-banks-on-day-release An armed robbery took place at a McDonald's restaurant in the early hours of Tuesday morning, in the Carinthian capital of Klagenfurt. https://www.thelocal.at/20140715/armed-robbery-at-klagenfurt-mcdonalds Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:02:00 +0200 armed-robbery-at-klagenfurt-mcdonalds