21-year-old in custody – arrested after attacking taxi driver

The robbery on a 53-year-old taxi driver last Wednesday in the city of Salzburg has been resolved according to the police. A 21-year-old suspect was arrested in his apartment in Salzburg on Friday after evaluating traces and video recordings. Officials found clothes on the Iraqi man who had been worn in the attack. The accused has denied the act. He was taken to the Salzburg prison.

The remaining perpetrator clothing was found by the investigators on Saturday in an apartment in Upper Austria. The 21-year-old is also said to have stayed there after the robbery. Neither the wallet nor its contents could be found so far, as a police spokeswoman said on Sunday.

During the attack on Schopperstrasse im Salzburg In the district of Itzling, the robber had threatened the woman with a knife when she wanted to collect the wages and asked for her wallet. When the Salzburg woman began to scream, he snatched her wallet from her and fled into town. The video images come from Makartplatz, where the perpetrator got into the taxi vehicle. The driver was not injured, but she had to be looked after by the Red Cross.

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