Bloody dispute in Vienna: 39-year-old seriously injured after a knife attack!

Bloody dispute in Vienna: 39-year-old seriously injured after a knife attack!

On the evening of May 21, 2025, a brutal attack occurred in Vienna-Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus, in which a 39-year-old man was seriously injured. The incident occurred around 8:15 p.m. in front of a Somali club restaurant on Schweglerstrasse. The attacker, a 41-year-old Somali citizen, stabbed the victim with a carpet knife and caused deep cuts in the head, neck and upper body range. The victim managed to free himself from the attacker and to flee to the club to seek help there.

The police arrived at the scene shortly after the incident and was able to arrest the suspect. The Vienna Professional Rescue provided the victim's emergency medical care, which was then brought into the shock room of a hospital. Fortunately, the all -clear could be given on Wednesday morning: the victim was no longer in mortal danger. The investigation has now been taken over by the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) Vienna, although the motive of the attack remains unclear so far. An interrogation of the victim is still pending to clarify further details. Federal Criminal Police Office , the criminal police statistics are regularly updated to improve preventive and repressive measures to combat crime and to develop them based on them.

The police crime statistics (PKS) continuously documents all the crimes shown in Austria. In order to ensure the effectiveness of the security measures, long -term developments in crime are precisely analyzed. Factors such as the display behavior of the population and the intensity of police controls have a significant impact on the annual figures.