Young prisoner ensures chaos: bomb threats as a pastime!

Young prisoner ensures chaos: bomb threats as a pastime!

Buchhornplatz, Deutschland - A young prisoner from Carinthia with his extraordinary leisure activity ensures headlines. Out of boredom, he started sending bomb threats by email. Between August 2024 and January 2025, there were always threatening emails to various police services, with the aim of bothering the Rottenstein branch of the Klagenfurt judiciary. These activities led to extensive police operations in which explosives specialists and service dog handlers were mobilized, reports krone.at . The 21-year-old admitted that he just wanted to attract attention in his monotonous everyday life, and emphasized that he did not want to endanger any people.

massive inserts through swatting

But that was not the only incident. The prisoner also carried out a so-called swatting attack, a kind of emergency call abuse to trigger a police operation. He pretended to be someone else and claimed to want to kill his roommate and himself and to have placed a bomb in his apartment. When the police arrived, it turned out that it was an incorrect alarm, as Schwäbische.de . These abuse means considerable risks to public security and lead to criminal consequences, according to the police.

The consequences of these repeated incidents are serious. The criminal officer of the State Office for State Protection and Extremism Combating Carinthia identified the 21-year-old as a perpetrator. Now he is in court for abuse of emergency ponds and severe coercion and is again sitting in the Klagenfurt prison. It remains to be seen whether these experiences can drive boredom in prison for him.