17-Year-Old Confesses: He Set the Fires in Guntramsdorf

The teenager is said to have notified the fire department himself in one case and stayed near the scene of the incident several times. A damage amount was not initially known. The suspect from the Mödling district was taken to the Wiener Neustadt correctional facility after his arrest.

17-Year-Old Confesses to Arson

The teenager was apprehended on Monday near the Pielerteich, where a sailboat was on fire in the afternoon and a fire had broken out in an adjacent forest. Just over an hour earlier, emergency services had already been alerted to a grass fire in the area of the tracks of the Vienna local railway near Friedhofstraße. Train traffic was not affected. On Saturday, there were four cases of arson. According to the fire department, these included a garbage room of a residential complex as well as containers and building parts on a construction site.

(APA/Red)

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