A 29-year-old Syrian national was arrested Tuesday after attacking an off-duty police officer with a kitchen knife in Vienna’s Ottakring district, according to police. The officer, who was finishing a jog, fought off the assailant in a struggle that left the knife blade broken.
The incident occurred around 2:45 p.m. on Oct. 27 in a driveway on Hasner Strasse.
“The officer was jogging around 2:45 p.m. and finished with stretching exercises in a driveway on Hasnerstraße. Out of the corner of his eye he observed the 29-year-old, who was approaching him rapidly. The officer also noticed the kitchen knife in his hand,” police spokeswoman Julia Schick said.
Without speaking, the attacker lunged at him.
“The unknown man attacked the officer with the knife without saying a word. The 37-year-old defended himself vigorously and screamed for help. The blade broke multiple times because of the intensity of the struggle. This and the resistance meant the injuries were less severe than they otherwise would have been,” police said.
Passersby alerted by the cries caused the attacker to break off and flee on foot toward the Ottakring U-Bahn station. Emergency services treated the officer at the scene and transported him to a hospital, according to Wien ORF news outlet.
Police recovered the damaged kitchen knife and launched a search based on a detailed description and surveillance-camera images from a nearby building. Officers from the Wattgasse and Brunnengasse stations located the suspect shortly afterward in Wernhardtstraße and took him into custody.
The man, a Syrian citizen, confessed to the attack during questioning but offered no motive. “The Syrian citizen confessed to the act but did not comment on his motive. He appeared psychologically distressed during the interrogation,” police said. However, there is no report that the man suffers from mental illness.
The two men did not know each other, according to media reports.
On the order of the Vienna public prosecutor’s office, the suspect was placed in detention.
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In many cases, the girls are ending up dead.
A psychiatrist who has worked with these underage prostitute victims says the girls give the same story: "They were approached at Salzburg Main Station by young men of Arabic origin."
They are recruited with drugs, hooked on them, and then forced to perform sex with clients while being filmed for blackmail material.
"Under severe drug influence, they would then often be sexually abused."
Girls as young as 12 are being targeted, and it is not just the city of Salzburg.
🔺In 2025, 7 minors died from drug overdoses, just in the city of Vienna.
🔺In recent weeks, three girls between ages 13 and 16, have suffered drug overdoses in the city of Innsbruck.
Most of these girls are recruited from rural Austrian towns, where there are still young White girls available to recruit.
The victims are then transported to bigger cities like Vienna, where they rent out apartments and sell the girls to Johns and gang r*ped by Arab men.
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