After knife attack

Graz residents go to the cemetery with escorts

The new escort service at Leonhard Cemetery in Graz was well received on Friday.(Bild: Christian Jauschowetz)

A new escort service is to provide more security at the Leonhard cemetery in Graz after a life-threatening knife attack on a senior citizen shook the entire city. The uneasy feeling remains.

Johann Schrei stands in the vicarage surrounded by two dozen people with a map of the 4.5-hectare cemetery containing 8,500 graves. He tries to guide his companions and cemetery visitors around the labyrinthine area. "I am touched and touched that so many have come," he says. The occasion for the new escort service at Leonhard Cemetery in Graz is not a happy one.