Drug deals

Victim (16) abused by dealer for months

Shocking: dealers storm a house in Wernberg because of drug debts, beat up a 16-year-old and threaten his mother. But that wasn't the only attack.

Scenes straight out of a mafia movie: In broad daylight, the doorbell rings at the home address of a 16-year-old in Wernberg. Believing the two lads at the front door to be friends of her son, the mother opens the door - a mistake: the duo storms into the second floor, beats and kicks the teenager. The intruders' motive: they want to collect drug debts. Instead of money, the suspects pack a motocross helmet and a pair of sunglasses.

According to the victim, the two suspects wanted to collect debts incurred in drug deals.

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And they were ruthless: during the operation, they held the mother (53) at bay with a fork and threatened her. The duo then fled.

What the investigators from the Velden police station did not know for a long time: weeks before this attack, the 16-year-old had already been beaten up and robbed by one of the wanted perpetrators at Krumpendorf train station. And a few days after the "house call" in Wernberg, the teenager was again targeted by the dealers: the victim literally ran into the arms, or rather fists, of the suspects in Klagenfurt. In this case too, the 16-year-old was robbed of cash.

Robberies that the boy did not report - for fear of revenge. Despite this lack of information, the investigators managed to track down the suspects (21 and 22) in December and put them in handcuffs in Klagenfurt. The investigators also seized heroin in the process: remand in custody!

Dealers & users are getting younger and younger
Apart from the level of violence in this drug case, the young age of those involved is also shocking. Although it comes as no surprise to experienced investigators: Carinthia's anti-drug chief Markus Kreulitsch alerted the "Kärntner Krone" months ago that "consumers and dealers are getting younger and younger".