Police checked about 3,000 vehicles at the Czech-Upper Austrian border in just eight days and seized a quantity of explosives equivalent to about 39 kilos of TNT. The parents of the 11 and 13 year old firecracker boys who caused a riot in Traun are reported.
Half of the illegal fireworks seized at national borders before New Year’s Eve were discovered in Upper Austria, where cars from the Czech Republic were carefully searched for eight days. In the Mühlviertel, researchers who checked 2,954 cars found 637 kilos of prohibited fireworks and rockets – nationally that was 1,300 kilos.
A smorgasbord of crackers
The 387 packages filled with rockets, crate fireworks or firecrackers contained 127 kilos of pure explosive, which corresponds to 38.3 kilos of TNT. But no one will be happy about the seized missiles; they will be officially destroyed, blown up or burned.
“The amount of pyrotechnics that have been removed and banned shows that controls are necessary. “We want to prevent unpredictably dangerous objects from being used and causing accidents,” said Andreas Pilsl, director of the state police.
Hand almost blown away
As reported, an 18-year-old almost blew off his left hand with a homemade firework on Saturday evening in Seewalchen.
Three boys who pulled off dozens of category F2 blasts in Traun are now in trouble, especially their parents. Because two of the children are only 11 and 13 years old and therefore still minors. The parents stated that they had left the fireworks to the children.
Source: Krone
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