Threatened Due to Rent Arrears and Attacked with a Knife: Two Arrests in Vienna-Brigittenau

There were two police operations on Wednesday in Vienna-Brigittenau. During the first intervention by the executive at around 11.30 am, there were two arrests due to threats based on alleged rent arrears. At around 10.15 pm, the police emergency call was made again in the same area after a 26-year-old had been injured in the neck with a knife.

Duo Arrested in Vienna After Threat Over Alleged Rent Arrears

It turned out that this man had been one of the three victims of the alleged threat hours earlier. He was taken to a hospital after initial treatment by the professional rescue service. An immediate search for the perpetrators was unsuccessful, and the victim has not yet been able to be questioned. Whether there is a connection between these two incidents cannot be ruled out at least for the time being, said police spokesman Markus Dittrich to the APA.

Men Allegedly Demanded Money

The two arrested in the morning are a 21-year-old and a 32-year-old Algerian national. They are accused of having visited the three men aged 26, 36 and 37 in an apartment and threatened them with a knife, a hammer and a stun gun, demanding money.

The police officers of the Brigittenau city police command, alerted by one of the three threatened, arrested the older suspect in the stairwell and his companion near the apartment. A hammer and knife were found in a trash can, but a stun gun was not found. The 21-year-old did not confess during his interrogation, the older one's was still pending. Both were taken to a correctional facility on the orders of the Vienna public prosecutor's office. Further investigations are being carried out by the Vienna State Criminal Police Office, Zentrum/Ost branch.

(APA/Red)

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