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High costs for false emergency reports: 18-year-olds are responsible!
The police decided after a threat case in Austria on February 4, 2025 that 18-year-old must bear the costs for false emergency reports.
High costs for false emergency reports: 18-year-olds are responsible!
In a scandalous incident, an 18-year-old in Vorarlberg made a bomb threat, which is now having serious consequences. The police made it clear that there was never any danger, but the security forces involved still had to move out. The threat, consisting of just six words, ensured that the young man now has to pay the costs of the operation. This is done on the basis of the Security Police Act, which regulates the charging of costs for police operations carried out intentionally or through gross negligence, as the Kleine Zeitung reported.
The costs caused by this deliberate false emergency report are now the responsibility of the perpetrator. This not only represents a deterrent measure for possible imitators, but also shows how seriously the authorities take such threats. According to the police, the emergency services immediately informed the responsible authorities to ensure safety. This incident could have legal consequences for similar cases in the future, as the Security Police Act provides clear guidelines on how to deal with such false emergency calls, as can be seen from the Bundestag document.