Course attack on the homeless: adolescents in Spielberg!

Course attack on the homeless: adolescents in Spielberg!

In the Styrian Spielberg there was a sneaky incident on Sunday evening: three young people attacked the tent of a 54-year-old homeless woman with firecrackers. Around 9 p.m. the woman in her tent was under a bridge when the perpetrators threw several burning firecrackers in their direction. Fortunately, the woman remained intact, but immediately noticed the dangerous event and alerted the police. The courageous youngsters, at the age of 16 and 17, were able to be caught by the officers of the Knittelfeld police inspection after the woman gave a precise description of the escape car and the suspect. Now they have to answer for property damage and attempted bodily harm, although they inform themselves succinctly not to have known that someone was in the tent, as krone.at reported.

But that was not the only incident of this kind in the region. In Leoben, the tent of a homeless man had risen on the same evening in the Waasen district. Here, too, it was initially suspected that young people could be responsible for this. The homeless man was not on site at the time of the fire and lost his entire belongings. However, the city and district police commander of Leoben, Karl Holzer, made it clear that the young people who were nearby were out of the question as perpetrators, such as

Both incidents raise questions about how to deal with homeless people and what security they have in society. The terrible attacks show a worrying tendency among young people, while the investigation into the causes of the fire continues in Leoben.