Bloody knife attack in favorites: 23-year-old arrested!

Bloody knife attack in favorites: 23-year-old arrested!

Favoriten, Wien, Österreich - On Sunday afternoon there was a violent incident in a Viennese apartment in the favorite district. A 23-year-old man from Iraq, who is considered a suspected attacker, is said to have stabbed a roommate with a kitchen knife under the influence of drugs. A total of three Iraqi citizens were affected in the incident: the attacker, the victim and another witness who also belongs to the group of those involved.

The situation escalated when the attacker returned home. The victim had to be taken to a hospital with superficial stab and cuts, but was not in mortal danger and was released into domestic care after first aid. The police started immediately and arrested the 23-year-old. Since all three men were illegal in the country, the victim and the witness were also arrested according to foreign police provisions. This information was provided by Krone

Legal framework and crime statistics

A look at the general situation of crime in Austria shows that police crime statistics (PKS) serve as a central instrument for recording and analyzing criminal events. The PKS is created on the basis of the Austrian Criminal Code and suitable secondary laws and contains electronically registered cases since 2001. It enables strategic planning of measures to combat crime.

The PKS only records the crimes that are displayed to the police and transmitted to the courts. This means that the dark field and the outcome of court proceedings do not flow into these statistics. Important influencing factors for PKS numbers include the display behavior of the population, the intensity of police controls and legal changes. Annual security reports created by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Ministry of Justice offer additional information and dashboard analyzes to develop crime in Austria. Further details on the police crime statistics can be found on bundeskriminalamt .

These current incidents illustrate the challenges in the field of fighting crime and the need to repeat and adapt the legal framework again and again. The reforms in criminal law are just as important as the support of organizational and preventive measures to counteract such violent incidents.