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The firecrackers that were used in Almtal are also illegal for untrained adults

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New Year's Eve may not be too far off, but these ball bombs should not have been set off at the turn of the year either. The Czech firecrackers used by seven teenagers in the Almtal valley to blow up garbage bins and the like are illegal and dangerous. An entire arsenal was confiscated.

Police officers from the Scharnstein police station were able to clear up several cases of damage to public garbage bins and newspaper cash registers committed by seven young people aged between 17 and 20 over the past three weeks, always at night, in the municipal areas of Grünau im Almtal and Steinbach am Ziehberg. The perpetrators blew up the objects in question with ball bombs or other firecrackers. All of the firecrackers used are banned in Austria and were previously imported illegally from the Czech Republic.

Prohibited firecrackers confiscated
The total damage caused by the damage to property amounts to several thousand euros. Police officers searched homes and were able to confiscate more than 500 pieces of pyrotechnic items in categories F3 and F4, which are prohibited for non-professionals.

Teenager attacked officers
During a search in Grünau im Almtal, a teenager got into a physical altercation with the police and was provisionally arrested. All seven teenagers will be reported to the public prosecutor's office in Wels and the district authorities in Gmunden and Kirchdorf.