Several weapons in the house

Cobra operation: Armed man detained woman

Police operation in the red-light district: In desperation, a Lithuanian citizen secretly called her "manager", her pimp, on Wednesday night. She was being held by a man in his house - and the client was armed.

The phone rang at around 11.30 p.m. and the desperate Lithuanian woman was on the other end of the line, asking her "manager" for help: she was being held in his house in the Wolfsberg district by a 64-year-old Swiss man using intimidation and, in some cases, low-threshold violence. "Due to the behavior of the 64-year-old Swiss citizen, the local conditions and the information that the man was in possession of a weapon, she was also unable to leave the location," reports the provincial police directorate. 

The pimp raised the alarm: because the man was armed, Cobra officers and the Rapid Intervention Group were also called in. Once at the scene, the 64-year-old man left his house and was cooperative. "A loaded long gun, ammunition and a crossbow were seized in the man's house," said the police, who also issued a temporary weapons ban for the man. He will be charged, but further investigations will be carried out.