Shock in Vienna: Four young people arrested in S-Bahn after brutal robbery!

Shock in Vienna: Four young people arrested in S-Bahn after brutal robbery!

The Viennese police have informed a robbery in a quick track, in which four young people aged 14 and 15 were arrested. These have nationalities of the Russian Federation and Afghanistan. The raid occurred on April 21, 2025 in a Viennese S-Bahn when the suspects robbed a bank card with the same age with the use of violence. First the perpetrators asked their victim for one euro; When this did not react, they beat it. A perpetrator hit the victim in the face and stole the bank card, while the other three young people also hit the victim and forced it to pass the pin code with a jumping knife. After the crime the perpetrators fled the Vienna-Westbahnhof.

With the captured card, several illegal money withdrawals were carried out. A public investigation led to the identification and arrest of all four suspects that were confessed and were transferred to a prison. These arrests again skill light on the increasing youth crime in Vienna.

alarming developments in youth crime

Youth crime in Vienna currently reaches alarming proportions. According to current estimates, there are almost 15,000 minor suspects, which shows a dramatic increase in violence and property crimes. A total of 194,981 crimes were reported in Vienna throughout 2024, which corresponds to an increase of 4.6 % compared to the previous year. The proportion of foreign suspects, which is significantly above the average of other federal states at 57.1 %, is particularly worrying.

A specific example of the violent attacks is a brutal robbery that took place on September 18, 2022. Here a 27-year-old man was attacked by a 19-year-old Algerian citizen and an unknown accomplice. The perpetrator pushed the victim to the ground, hit it and entered it to rob a credit card and a wristwatch. He could be arrested as part of an immediately initiated search, while his accomplice is still fleeting.

increasing number of offenses and political reactions

The crime statistical data from Vienna show that the number of suspects under the age of 18 increases. Of the registered 14,804 suspects, 5,066 under 14 years are not responsible and therefore not responsible. However, a small group of these minors is responsible for 30 % of the burglaries into shops and vehicles. The number of predatory offenses has also increased by 18.1 %, and the number of rapes has increased by 10.9 %.

in political space is discussed about possible tightening in youth welfare law. The NEOS initiative for the introduction of forced stays for violent minors in Heimen is not fundamentally rejected. This could be a direct reaction to the worrying results of crime statistics. The Ministry of the Interior is planning to publish detailed data on crime in Vienna next Monday.