Perpetrators on the run

Blows to the face: two church day visitors in LKH

The parade at the Villach church festival on Saturday was a colorful, peaceful celebration. But a woman and a man had to be taken to hospital by the ambulance service because they had been beaten.

At around 1.40 a.m. on Sunday, a 22-year-old woman from the district of Klagenfurt-Land called the police because she had been punched in the face by a man she did not know in a tent at the Villacher Kirchtag. The ambulance service took the injured woman to Villach LKH. Several witnesses observed the incident. Further investigations are being carried out. The perpetrator is still unknown.

At around 2.40 a.m. on Sunday, a stranger punched a 26-year-old man from Klagenfurt in the face with his fist in the entrance area of a tent at the Villach Kirchtag. The victim fell and was injured. Witnesses stated that the perpetrator was accompanied by two other men. The trio then left the tent in a dark car and the victim was taken to Villach LKH by the ambulance service.

Video surveillance footage was secured and further investigations are being carried out.