Beatings, pepper spray – fists flew in the extended family: police officers injured

Who has priority? This question sparked a heated argument in a large family divided into two cars. Only when the police showed up did the six men pull themselves together and attack the uniformed men together. Two officers had to go to the hospital.

Apparently it doesn’t take much for the fuses of six relatives from the Gmünd and Zwettl districts to blow. The 18 to 39 year old men demonstrated this impressively on Friday afternoon in Waidhofen an der Thaya. Trigger in the roundabout The extended family was divided into two cars when one driver gave way to the other in the roundabout near the warehouse. The situation quickly escalated and it was decided to meet at the neighboring shopping center to discuss the matter. But words soon became actions. T-shirts were torn and punches were thrown. Witnesses finally called the emergency number. Officers were immediately attacked. However, when they saw the first patrol arriving, the combatants spontaneously joined forces again. Immediately two of them and a little later all six attacked the two officers and pushed them to the ground. Both later had to be taken to hospital with injuries. They are currently on sick leave. The reinforcements called in in the form of six additional patrol cars were also received extremely aggressively. The men were only able to be arrested through the use of pepper spray and massive physical exertion. They were taken to the police station for questioning and were released a short time later on the orders of the public prosecutor. They have to answer for resisting state authority.
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