Final week, Schooling Minister Martin Polaschek (ÖVP) introduced a compulsory little one safety idea in all colleges. This can be a response to growing offenses in instructional establishments.
In keeping with crime statistics revealed by the Inside Ministry on the request of liberal safety spokesman Hannes Amesbauer, the variety of incidents has truly elevated sharply. In Vienna, for instance, the variety of crimes in colleges nearly doubled from 962 to 1,932 from 2021 to 2023.
The variety of legal offenses in opposition to life and limb elevated from 289 to 722. Many of the crimes in colleges are property crimes, with over 1,000.
Despite the fact that the numbers are highest in Vienna, there’s a noticeable enhance in crimes in nearly all federal states. In Decrease Austria, the quantity elevated from 536 to 881 between 2021 and 2023, in Higher Austria from 497 to 875, in Styria from 456 to 784, in Carinthia from 170 to 332 and in Salzburg from 225 to 326.
