In Parndorf (Burgenland), children and parents are scared: one evening a dubious stranger tried to lure a ten-year-old student into his car. There is no trace of the suspect.
“Boy, boy, get in!” With these words, a stranger recently tried to persuade a ten-year-old from Parndorf to get into his car. The shocking thing: The incident happened in the immediate vicinity of the block of flats where the boy was living with his parents.
According to the police log, the student was jogging by the man around 6:45 PM on September 12. However, he walked on and immediately reported the incident to his father’s home. This warned the police. However, a scrape in the area was negative.
Incident after football training
“My son, who is in his freshman year of high school, is an avid athlete. That evening I picked him up from soccer practice around 6:30 PM so he wouldn’t have to go home alone,” the father told the “Krone.” He himself immediately returned to the apartment, his son wanted to jog one or two laps around the apartment building. “I saw him walk by from our balcony. Shortly after, he was at the door completely upset and told me in tears what had happened,” says the father, giving the floor to his son so that he can explain the course of events in his own words. can describe.
“I was walking down the sidewalk when suddenly a complete stranger with a foreign accent yelled at me, ‘Boy, boy, get in!’ I didn’t react to that, I just kept walking,” says the boy. After a few yards, he turned to see if the man was following him. “It actually followed me in the car – it was a Skoda Octavia – but quickly turned off when I got to our apartment.”
education at school
Has he been afraid to leave the house ever since? “No,” says the little hero, “I know what to do in an emergency: scream for help and run!”
In order to sensitize the children to such dangers in dealing with strangers, the incident in the Parndorf primary school was extensively discussed. “This made the children prick up their ears, making them even more careful,” said Mayor Wolfgang Kovacs.
Source: Krone
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