Bloody stabbing in Favoriten: power struggle among Syrians escalates!

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In Vienna-Favoriten, two men were injured in stabbings in a weapons ban zone. Police are looking for perpetrators.

Bloody stabbing in Favoriten: power struggle among Syrians escalates!

In Vienna-Favoriten there was a bloody stabbing that took place in a weapons ban zone. Two men, both Syrians, got into a heated argument at Wielandplatz, one of whom was stabbed in the kidney. An acquaintance of the victim, also Syrian, tried to intervene and was injured in the forearm and attacked with pepper spray. The police are looking for the fugitive perpetrator. According to police spokeswoman Anna Gutt, “differences of opinion due to previous problems” were the trigger for the altercation exxpress.at reported.

Just shortly before, at Reumannplatz, there was also a brutal stabbing. Here, a 21-year-old Russian and a 45-year-old man attacked a group, leading to a commotion that took place at a sausage stand near the U1 station. A video documents the frightening scenes as the argument turned violent and knives were drawn. Passers-by witnessed what was happening when an injured man wandered through the crowd with an undershirt covered in blood and a belt in his hand. Loud today.at Onlookers even prevented emergency responders from providing first aid to the injured. The two attackers were now in custody and the 21-year-old admitted that a previous argument had been preceded by a pepper spray attack.

Repeated outbreaks of violence