One on Tuesday escaped prisoner is back in the Korneuburg Prison.
The 23-year-old Austrian citizen returned there voluntarily on Thursday around 9:45 p.m., said a police spokesman Raimund Schwaigerlehner on Friday in response to an APA request.
The inmate had been there since September 2023 outdoors been stopped. The ministry recently said that the prisoner had completed “a variety of prison relaxations associated with freedom without incident.”
Remaining sentence of only three months
“Also in view of the short remaining sentence of only three months wasn’t from Risk of escape to go out,” it was emphasized. Prison guards immediately rushed after the prisoner, and the officers were supported by the police.
However, the inmate was able to get away. It was unclear on Friday where the man had been after the escape. A search had turned out negatively.
Whole series of escaped prisoners
There have been several cases of prisoner escapes in recent months. There is still no trace of it Islam Y., who escaped on November 14, 2023 during an examination appointment at the Krems University Hospital.
5,000 euros for information about Chechens
The High risk inmate sat in the Stein one prison eleven year prison sentence which had been pronounced, among other things, for aggravated robbery. Before his arrest, the 35-year-old was Mixed martial arts fighter. A prize of 5,000 euros was offered for information leading to the arrest of the Chechen.
A 19-year-old suspect also fled Supporter of the radical Islamist terrorist militia “Islamic State” (IS). The young man who escaped from a Vienna hospital was caught a day later in Floridsdorf in February. Mahdy C. was transferred from the Wiener Neustadt prison to the Vienna-Josefstadt prison because it has its own hospital ward.
He had an appointment at the hospital Brothers of Mercy used in Vienna-Leopoldstadt to escape. A 16-year-old also ran away during a medical examination in November 2023 at the Wiener Neustadt State Hospital.
The Afghan was arrested a few days later in Vienna and taken back to the juvenile correctional facility in Gerasdorf (Neunkirchen district), where he had originally served a prison sentence.
