A 49-year-old man attacked and injured his partner with a kitchen knife on Saturday evening in Floridsdorf. The WEGA arrested the man, the woman was taken to the hospital with cuts.

According to police spokesman Philipp Haßlinger, the bleeding woman was able to save herself in the courtyard of the residential complex in Brünner Straße and alerted the emergency services shortly before 7 p.m. with a telephone borrowed from a woman in the courtyard.

Help for victims

Women’s Helpline: 0800222555

24-hour women’s emergency call: 0171719

24-hour emergency call of the Viennese women’s shelters: 057722

Telephone pastoral care: 142

Association of Viennese women’s shelters

Violence protection centers of Austria

Two per thousand alcohol in the blood

The Vienna Einsatzgruppe Alarm Department (WEGA) was also used by the police. When the heavily drunk aggressor saw the officials, he fled to the attic, which the uniformed people noticed. The WEGA was still able to put the man in the stairwell and arrested the Polish citizen without resistance. He refused any information and had around two per thousand alcohol in his blood. The police imposed a ban on entering and approaching him as well as a temporary ban on weapons.

In the courtyard, the victim was able to save himself

The professional rescue provided the woman with emergency medical care and took her to a hospital. Her injuries bled heavily, but fortunately they were probably rather superficial cuts. Your interrogation was still pent on Sunday.