36-Year-Old Arrested After Telephone Threat

The 36-year-old Austrian called the police emergency number from a phone booth in the Schottenpassage on Sunday and threatened to kill an employee of a telephone hotline if she were to hang up the call again.

36-year-old had also threatened energy company

Officers from the Goethegasse police station stopped the man shortly thereafter near a tram stop. There, he openly admitted to making the call and reiterated his threat, which led to his arrest. Further investigations revealed that the 36-year-old had already threatened an energy company with a bomb over the phone at the end of May 2025. During the interrogation, the man confessed to the allegations. On the orders of the Vienna public prosecutor's office, he was transferred to a correctional facility.

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