Three Cobra operations within 24 hours kept the police in Lower Austria on tenterhooks: From Friday evening, a large contingent of special forces was required in Melk, Tulln and Saturday morning in Winklarn in the Amstetten district.
After a family dispute escalated in the Mostviertel, a man is said to have threatened his partner and her daughter with a pistol. The gunman then barricaded himself in a single-family home and the settlement was blocked off over a large area. The police managed to “resolve the situation quickly and unspectacularly,” as a police spokesman emphasized. The perpetrator must have quickly recognized his hopeless situation. Officials from the Rapid Intervention Group (SIG) were also on site. During his arrest, a gas pistol was confiscated from the man and he is now facing charges of dangerous threats and coercion. Further deployment in TullnJust a short time later, a family dispute in Tulln also caused the Cobra task force to be alerted. After special forces surrounded a house in the flower city on Friday night, a quick attack followed. This enabled us to quickly bring the situation under control. The exact background is currently unclear and is the subject of investigations. There are said to be no injuries.Special forces also in the Amstetten district Things continued quickly on Saturday morning: This time the special forces from Cobra and SIG were alerted to a morning operation in Winklarn in the Amstetten district. According to initial information, several weapons were also involved. The access has already been completed and the operation “ended easily,” as the police explained upon request. As has now become known, a relationship dispute in a bar is said to have triggered the alarm. The man went home after the argument and “barricaded himself” there. After the officers asked him to do so, he left the house voluntarily. “In this case, the Cobra was requested because they were already traveling in Lower Austria,” the police say.
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