U-railway robbery in Vienna: 16-year-old makes sacrifices sleeping!
U-railway robbery in Vienna: 16-year-old makes sacrifices sleeping!
In February 2025, Vienna experienced another incident of youth crime, which will be willing to alert the city. At Stephasplatz, three young people knocked down a sleeping man and robbed him of his wallet. This emerges from several reports that deal with the increasing danger of young criminals. The victims, a 53-year-old man, fell asleep on the platform in the night hours of February 15 when the attackers woke him up and hit the face violently. They stole his wallet and then fled him in an unknown direction to buy cigarettes worth around 250 euros with the stole ATM cards, such as Kosmo.The Viennese police were able to identify one of the alleged perpetrators, a 16-year-old Syrian citizen after evaluating the surveillance cameras. Several advertisements were filed against the young people, which include robbery, abusive use of unobstructed means of payment, documents and multiple burglary theft. Despite these accusations, the suspect remains at large and denied the allegations by claiming that his accomplices were alone. The search according to the other two perpetrators continues, as puls24 reports.
rapid increase in youth crime
This incident is not isolated, but is in the context of an alarming increase in youth crime in Vienna. According to a current advertising statistics from the police, the number of predatory crimes displayed rose by 18.1% to 1,394 cases in 2024. It is particularly striking that more than half of the young perpetrators (57.1%) come from abroad. In 2024, a total of 14,804 suspects under the age of 18 were reported, which represents an increase of 33% compared to previous years. This worrying development suggests that society is faced with a major challenge, since younger criminals are always more violent forms of crime, so [today] (https://www.heute.at/s/alarmend-Meimmer- Mehr-kriminelle-in-in-wien-120102644).
In order to counter this problem, an interdisciplinary working group "Child and Youth Crime" in Vienna, which deals with prevention measures and supports the police in their work, was set up in 2024. These measures are urgently necessary to effectively counteract the increasing figures and the associated violence.
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