Violent examination in Dornbirn: Knife attack at the train station!

Violent examination in Dornbirn: Knife attack at the train station!

On Monday evening, April 8, 2025, around 10:30 p.m. on Bahnhofstrasse in Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, there was a violent incident between two men. The dispute between the 31-year-old and the 22-year-old man led to minor injuries. The 31-year-old was persecuted by his 22-year-old opponent what the Situation escalated.

The argument shifted at the level of house number 28, where a 16-year accompaniment of the 31-year-old was slightly injured, while uninvolved passers-by tried to settle the dispute. But the conflict did not end there. The two men moved into Klostergasse, where the 22-year-old and an 18-year-old friend pulled a folding knife with a blade length of about 8 cm and started on the 31-year-old.

attack with a folding knife

The aggressively intervening 22-year-old injured the 31-year-old on the chin, with suffering a superficial cut. As part of the operational approach, the police temporarily arrested the 22-year-old. The investigation is subsequently continued, and both the 22-year-old and the 18-year-old are reported to the Feldkirch public prosecutor.

The Dornbirn police inspection also has a call to witnesses that can provide information on the incident. Interested parties are asked to report on the phone number +43 (0) 59 133 8140.

crime in Austria

Such incidents throw a shadow on the general security situation in the region. According to the Federal Criminal Police Office , the police crime statistics (PKS) capture the development of criminal events in Austria and notes that the statistics are collected on the basis of the Austrian Criminal Code and criminal secondary law. Since 2001 all displayed cases have been registered electronically, which enables a differentiated analysis of the crime process.

The PKS is not only a display- but also a strategic statistics that the police serve in planning preventive and repressive measures. Annual security reports, created by the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) and the Federal Ministry of Justice (BMJ), offer detailed content about the PKS and criminal -political trends.

With the increase in violent crimes like this, attention is paid to the quality and effectiveness of police measures, a topic that will remain relevant in the coming time. It remains to be seen whether the incident in Dornbirn will have an impact on further crime development in the region.

Further information on similar incidents can be found in a report by Vorarlberg Orf .