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“Working” thief caught after perfume theft

The man was arrested by the police (symbolic image).

(Bild: Uta Rojsek-Wiedergut, Krone KREATIV)

Shortly after a hired worker left a drugstore in Klagenfurt on Wednesday, employees noticed that perfumes and pet food were missing. They immediately warned other stores - the man soon turned up in one of them.

When the police received the report at around 14.40 on Wednesday, two patrols immediately made their way to a drugstore in the north-east of Klagenfurt. "There was an unknown man there who had previously stolen perfume and pet food from another drugstore in Klagenfurt," explained the police. "This man was tasked with working in the drugstores."

The store that had been robbed then immediately passed on the description of the perpetrator - so the police were able to intercept him on site in good time. "After investigations were carried out and due to the fact that the man did not cooperate in establishing his identity and did not have any identification on him, he was taken to the police station," said the police.

Only then did the identity of the thief emerge - a 34-year-old Ukrainian who even had an international arrest warrant from Germany. "The Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum ordered the arrest and transfer to the Klagenfurt police detention center," said the police, who are conducting further investigations into the man.