The victim reported to the police shortly afterwards and testified that the quartet held a broken glass bottle in front of him and forced him to take off his clothes. Then the women ransacked his pockets, stole his money and cell phone, and finally hit him in the stomach and face. The man was slightly injured.
The police started a manhunt. A patrol in the station garage came across a small fire site where the clothes stolen from the Somali had been burned. Another police patrol discovered the four suspected attackers in the Volksgarten. They were a 16 and a 19 year old Austrian, a 21 year old Croatian and a 19 year old Polish woman – all from Linz. The Somali could clearly identify the women when they were compared.
According to the police, one of the accused also discovered a cell phone that had been stolen earlier and a forged passport. The four suspects were arrested and taken to the police detention center. Like their victim, they are likely to belong to the Linz train station milieu.
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