Young person with a knife: police operation in Vienna-Donaustadt!

Young person with a knife: police operation in Vienna-Donaustadt!

There was a threatening incident in Vienna-Donaustadt when a 17-year-old man attacked passers-by with a knife. According to reports from vienna.at The teenager had previously damaged several parked vehicles. When he was approached by a passerby, he tried to attack him with the knife and then fled into a nearby stairwell. The teenager, who was already known to the police, was later arrested by the police at his home address after he refused to open the apartment voluntarily. The knife was confiscated from his home, while the slightly injured passer-by refused medical treatment.

Drastic escalation in Munich

At the same time, Munich experienced a dangerous scenario: a 48-year-old man with no fixed address threatened police officers with a knife during a dispute between two other men, as the police reported in a press release. The incident occurred on March 14 in Ludwigsvorstadt when a 33-year-old Pole and a 63-year-old Bulgarian got into an argument in which the younger man used an animal repellent spray. Suddenly an uninvolved 48-year-old intervened and pulled out a knife. The police officers asked him several times to put down the knife, whereupon an officer fired a warning shot. The aggressive man was finally arrested after pepper spray was used. Both he and the 33-year-old were taken into custody, while the 63-year-old was treated as an outpatient. The entire incident was taken over by the criminal investigation department merkur.de reported.