At the Altaussee Kirtag

Cut in the back turned out to be an accident while intoxicated

At first it was assumed that it was a cowardly knife attack in the beer tent.(Bild: Christian Jauschowetz)

A 22-year-old man was seriously injured in the Altaussee beer tent on Sunday night. He did not notice the cut himself at first, but passers-by drew his attention to it. Witnesses to the alleged knife attack were then sought. But it turned out to be an accident.

There was great excitement surrounding a 22-year-old Lower Austrian man at the traditional Altaussee Kirtag on Monday night: at around 1 am, the young man was admitted to Bad Aussee LKH with a cut to his back. Passers-by had alerted the drunk guest to the heavily bleeding wound and called the ambulance.

At the hospital, the doctors treated a cut several centimetres deep and long, and the injured man was admitted as an inpatient.

The party guest (22) sustained a deep cut to his back in this tent on the festival grounds.(Bild: Christian Jauschowetz)

Because it was suspected that the injuries had been inflicted deliberately, the police were called in and witnesses were sought. A knife attack was assumed - but the party animal was too drunk to remember what had happened in the Altaussee beer tent.

On Monday evening, the all-clear was given: in the course of the investigation, it emerged that witnesses were able to attribute the wound to a drunken hoppala. The 22-year-old may have been dancing on a bar table when he fell to the floor and landed on an aluminum rail. This sharp-edged rail is believed to have caused him a serious cut, which he did not notice himself. The public prosecutor's office in Leoben is now involved in the criminal investigation.