Courageous heroes
Big performance for real Styrian heroes
Big performance for real heroes: Once a year, courageous Styrians are brought before the curtain. Thursday was the day: young people, workers, employees, coffee house owners, pensioners - they all put a stop to criminals.
Cousins Sebastian and Max (15, 16), as well as Sandro and Paul (both 15), also cousins, can take a leaf out of their book. They have known each other since kindergarten and met up with friends on the main square in Stainz in April. Desperate scenes suddenly unfolded: "A man attacked his girlfriend, hit her with his fist and threw her against a fence," they describe to the "Krone" newspaper. Two boys ran up to the attacker and shouted at him to stop, which had an effect - he fled in a cab. The others called for reinforcements, helped the injured woman to her feet and led her to the police.
It is thanks to the quartet of lads that a dangerous situation ended without any serious consequences. And they all agree: "Yes, we would do it again any time!"
Terrible scenes unfolded in Graz last September: a man (38) shot at his girlfriend with a bow and arrow. Two arrows pierced her body and her life was temporarily in danger. The perpetrator fled in his white car, but had a flat tire near Kapfenstein. Stefan, who works at the Öamtc, was called to the scene and his girlfriend Renate accompanied him. When he arrived at the scene, no one was there.
"We were looking for the man and I spotted him in the driveway of a house," says Renate. They both immediately had a bad feeling. "He looked like he was on drugs, came far too close to me with his tire iron and was in a great hurry," says Stefan. When everything was done, he alerted the police. Shortly afterwards, the man was captured by the Cobra and was shot himself. Renate and Stefan are delighted to have got out of the situation safely. And are now looking forward to their wedding on Saturday.
The nightmare of many Styrians: in April, Walter Praunegger was attacked in his house by a burglar wearing a balaclava because the landlord and his wife Sylvia caught him rummaging through a shelf. However, the intruder did not flee like his two accomplices, but reached for a gun on the wall. Knowing that the gun was unloaded, the 70-year-old defended himself and took a beating.
In the meantime, his wife had called the police and neighbor Dietmar Hirtenfelder (to help. They joined forces and pinned the intruder to the ground. "I must have quite a thick head, that's why nothing more happened to me," joked the victim three days later with "Krone" editor Hannes Baumgartner.
Suspicious figures kept hanging around on the street in front of the coffee house owned by Sieglinde and Wolfgang Wetzelberger in Friedberg. Peter Berghofer also watched everything from his apartment. When the local jeweler was actually burgled shortly afterwards, everything was clear for the villagers. They described their observations to the police and provided useful descriptions of the people so that the perpetrators could be tracked down by the police.
Aronia farmer Herbert Gartner from Paurach near Feldbach actually just wanted to check on his berries - suddenly he chased after a brazen gang of burglars from Hungary in his car and had a wild chase with the criminals. During the high-speed drive, the Styrian informed the police, who were able to arrest the suspects shortly afterwards thanks to his intervention. As it turned out, they caused damage of around 100,000 euros!
Jogger Patrick Seibriger reacted correctly when a car sped towards him in September. It seemed so suspicious to him that he memorized license plate fragments and the type of vehicle. As it turned out, he had the right nose! Shortly afterwards, he heard in the media about a hit-and-run accident in which two girls (14, 15) on their moped were hit by a car and crashed. The jogger contacted the police, who tracked down the perpetrator.
Cash and jewelry worth tens of thousands of euros were taken by two men and two women when they broke into a family home in Hart bei Graz at the beginning of October.
What the four criminals did not realize, however: They were observed committing their crime by two municipal employees, Bernhard Medved and Andreas Kobald, who immediately alerted the police. The perpetrators were arrested in the course of an immediate manhunt and some of the loot was seized.
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