A false alarm at the secondary school in Garsten, Upper Austria, led to a major police operation on Monday. A caller threatened the director with a shooting. The search for the perpetrator continues. Similar incidents in Upper Austria ended up in court.
Anyone behind the threatened call to the high school in Garsten should expect that this so-called fun could have far-reaching consequences for them. As reported, the entire school building was evacuated on Monday after the principal received a phone call threatening a shooting. The emergency services obviously took the alarm seriously, the building was evacuated and subsequently searched. Nothing has been found. But the investigation continued the next day.
Estonian telephone number used
Efforts are being made to trace the call; an Estonian song and a computer-generated voice were used. After all, it was a dangerous threat.
The Criminal Code §107 Paragraph 2 states: “Any person who commits a dangerous threat by threatening death, significant mutilation or conspicuous disfigurement, kidnapping, arson, danger of nuclear energy, ionizing radiation or explosives, or threatens destroy economic existence or social position or uses these means to put the threatened person or anyone else against whom the violence or dangerous threat is directed into a torturous state for a long period of time, shall be punished with imprisonment for a maximum of three years .
Usually leniency in court
A look at similar previous cases shows that leniency was generally applied in court. In 2017, a student (15) whose alleged threat of a shooting in the NMS Ohsldorf could not be proven, was ultimately acquitted by the court. In Wels, a 17-year-old posted a shooting game online the day before the Mathematura with the BRG Wallerstrasse as the background. The verdict: three months’ suspended prison sentence, psychological treatment – and his laptop was confiscated by the court.
Source: Krone
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