Supermarket "annoys" him: Man in Vienna-Floridsdorf threatened with explosion

The bomb threatener, who called the Vienna police emergency number late Sunday afternoon and announced that he would blow up a supermarket branch at Franz-Jonas-Platz in Floridsdorf, conveniently gave his name to the officers. According to police spokesman Markus Dittrich, he was shortly thereafter arrested by uniformed officers from the Kummergasse police station and the Ziegelofenweg station. The officers found nothing suspicious or explosive.

Man in Vienna-Floridsdorf Arrested

The 36-year-old Austrian citizen confessed during the interrogation to having made the threat. Regarding his motive, he said in broad and hearty Viennese dialect, that the supermarket chain in question annoyed him. He was reported at large on the orders of the public prosecutor's office.

The case is reminiscent of a similar case a few years ago, where a Viennese man announced during a nighttime call to the police emergency number that he intended to undertake a hostage-taking at a branch of the Public Employment Service (AMS) the following Monday. This caller also introduced himself by name right at the beginning. The phone call back then found its way onto the internet and went viral.

(APA/Red)

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