Young offenders are not just a concern for Germans. The case of 12-year-old Luise, apparently killed by girls her own age, has shocked our neighboring country. But trials against criminal youths are also high season in Austria. The perpetrators often do not live up to the clichés. Six recent court cases show how quickly the world of young people can come apart at the seams.
Case 1: knife robbery
With round glasses and childishly dressed, a high school student appears in court in Vienna. His mother died in childbirth. A wealthy family – Papa Kommerzialrat – adopted the boy and his sister. It worked until a month ago when Erik (name has been changed) held a butterfly knife to the neck of a drugstore clerk in Vienna-Währing during her free time and emptied the cash register.
Source: Krone
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