Bloody argument among young people: 17-year-old stands up!

Bloody argument among young people: 17-year-old stands up!

In the late afternoon of July 4, 2025, there was a dramatic incident in a supervised shared apartment in Kürnbergergasse, Vienna-Rudolfsheim. A dispute between two 17-year-old adolescents, triggered by nullity, escalated in such a way that one of the young men with one folding knife stabbed the other. As 5min.at .

an alarming trend

This incident is skill in a worrying phenomenon: the increase in youthful crime in Austria. According to bmi.gv.at , the advertisements are increasing against minors, especially towards ten to fourteen, for years. For example, the number of 6,311 advertisements in 2014 to 9,730 in 2023. In order to cope with the growing youth violence, an interministerial working group was set up in March 2024, which deals specifically with the combating of youth crime.

Another alarming aspect is that around 500 students are suspended in Vienna every year due to violence. This tendency is rising. Many affected young people have no regulated daily routine and do not return to school environment after suspenders. Everyday life in the Vienna parks is increasingly shaped by such conflicts, with ethnically motivated clashes often occur.

It is important to mention that social media and chat groups play a crucial role in this spiral of violence. The police are often considered an enemy by the youth bands, which makes it difficult to document provocations. The increasingly frequent robberies in which defenseless people often fall victim to.