After 180 Burglaries: Man Arrested in Lower Austria
The total damage amounts to over 760,000 euros, with the value of the loot around 195,000 euros. The crime scenes were located in Lower Austria, Vienna, Upper Austria, Vorarlberg, and Burgenland. The Bosnian from Vienna refused to testify and was taken to the Vienna-Josefstadt prison, the Lower Austrian police announced on Friday.
Burglary series began in March 2012
According to the release, the series began in March 2012. A large number of DNA traces were secured at the crime scenes, which were attributed to the same initially unknown suspect. The identity of the accused initially remained unclear, but the man was eventually identified during the investigations by the Lower Austrian State Criminal Police Office. After a burglary in a company building in Wiener Neudorf on the night of July 1st this year, the handcuffs clicked for the 50-year-old from Vienna-Brigittenau. The suspect was initially taken to the St. Pölten prison and subsequently transferred to the Vienna-Josefstadt prison.
The targets of the burglaries were mainly company and office buildings (154 objects). Additionally, nine locations of public institutions, seven educational facilities, as well as five fire stations and clubhouses each were affected. The majority of the offenses, namely 146, occurred in Lower Austria - 83 of them in Mödling alone. Other crime scenes in the state were in Bruck an der Leitha, Tulln, Baden, and St. Pölten. There were also 19 burglaries in Vienna-Liesing, nine in the Eisenstadt area, and three each in Linz and the Bregenz area.
(APA/Red)
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