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A well-known teenager in court after a taxi robbery in Linz

A well-known teenager in court after a taxi robbery in Linz

The 17-year-old is not a blank slate – he was there at the end of 2021 when a group set fire to a police car in Linz. His alleged accomplices are also not unknown to the police, but they were still under criminal responsibility in the taxi robbery.

The 17-year-old climbed into a taxi in Linz on the night of November 9 together with the two 13-year-olds – a boy and a girl. The three were chauffeured to Kronstorf (Linz-Land district). There, the 13-year-old boy is said to have faked a gun in his jacket pocket and threatened the taxi driver to shoot him if he didn’t give them his car. Together, the two boys are said to have beaten the driver and driven him out of his vehicle.

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The trio then drove off in the stolen car. On the way, according to the indictment, the youths broke into a supermarket and a gas station – they needed oil because they had damaged the stolen taxi and the car was leaking oil. The 17-year-old is accused of robbery and burglary by the Linz public prosecutor’s office and faces up to five years in prison. The teenager already has court experience: last year he and three other young men were sentenced to partially suspended prison sentences for dousing and setting fire to a police car in the Ebelsberg district of Linz in November 2021.

The two 13-year-olds who are said to have been involved in the taxi robbery were still under criminal responsibility at the time, so the hands of the law enforcement authorities are tied. However, the boy is now 14 years old and will therefore be of criminal responsibility in the future. The teenagers are likely to belong to a loose association of young people who are said to have committed violent crimes, burglaries and (car) thefts in different constellations in several districts and violated the Narcotic Substances Act and the Prohibition Act. Their misdeeds had recently even triggered a discussion about the age limit for criminal responsibility.

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