Authorities powerless

Expert opinion gives trio of brothers carte blanche

This car was stolen by the three brothers and badly damaged.

A young gang of brothers are constantly stealing cars, committing burglaries and spitting on tobacconists. Now even the head of the youth home is criticizing an expert opinion that virtually denies the criminal siblings' sanity and thus prevents any criminal consequences.

"I am very disappointed because the whole of society is being held hostage by an expert opinion." Peter Heidlmair, managing director of the child and youth welfare facility of the same name, is furious. The residential group in Pasching in Upper Austria looks after a 13-year-old Slovakian boy on behalf of the Amstetten district authority, who has been getting up to criminal mischief with his two brothers (14 and 17) for months.