A look at the archive shows that perpetrators usually underestimate the legal consequences – because it is always expensive. But almost no one goes to prison. A fact that is unlikely to deter imitators.
The bomb threat against the Spittelwiese Academic College in Linz – the threat or threateners have not yet been identified. The State Office for State Security and Combating Extremism (LSE) is investigating at full speed, but a result is not expected until next week.
Suspicion of land coercion
Given the enormous extent of the damage, which the police internally estimate at 38,000 euros and the suspicion of coercion §275, it is interesting to look in the archive to see what punishments await the perpetrator. The maximum sentence is three years.
In October, two 21-year-olds were sentenced to four or six months’ suspended prison sentence for writing and publishing a bomb threat on the toilet door of a vocational school in Völkermarkt (Carinthia).
14 months for two threats
However, on Tuesday an unstable 26-year-old with a criminal record who had twice threatened to plant bombs at the train station in Feldkirch (Vorarlberg) was sentenced to 14 months in prison.
However, a Salzburg resident (51) who the year before drunkenly threatened Salzburg airport with a bomb out of fear of ‘chemtrails’, escaped with a fine. He had to pay a fine of 1,350 euros.
Source: Krone
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