During the night, turbulent scenes played out at a rest area on the South Autobahn. A “customer” attacked an employee, looted the cash register and rushed off in the direction of Vienna.
“Everything went terribly fast!” When it was already very quiet on the streets in Burgenland, the robber entered the gas station at the motorway service station near Loipersdorf in the Oberwart district around 11 p.m. on Sunday.
fake purchase
At first it still seemed that the late night guest would be a completely normal, innocent customer. But when the unknown man pretended to pay for the goods during his fake purchase and the employee opened the cash register for the return money, the criminal struck ruthlessly.
Fight between perpetrator and victim
The perpetrator jumped on the gas station attendant. He tried with all his might to reach into the cash drawer and grab the banknotes. As unexpected as the attack was for the victim, she responded with quick wit. The shocked employee of an Italian mineral oil company managed to fend off the first attacks. However, there was a wild scuffle and painful punches between the robber and the gas station attendant.
“During the argument, the perpetrator pretended to be armed and threatened the gas station attendant,” the state police directorate said in the course of the reconstruction of the robbery. In the end, the stranger managed to snatch money from the till and made off with the loot. The robber sped off on the southern autobahn towards Vienna, but the search for the fugitive and the murder vehicle turned up nothing. It is not yet clear how much money was stolen. The investigation by the National Investigation Department is still ongoing.
Gas station attendant in shock
The victim will not soon be able to forget the attack. Fortunately, the attendant was not injured, but was shocked. A colleague who came back from vacation on Monday said: “We hope he gets better soon. We are afraid something like this could happen.”
Source: Krone
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