Shock in Vöcklabruck: 14-year-old admits bomb threat to school!

Shock in Vöcklabruck: 14-year-old admits bomb threat to school!

In the Vöcklabruck district, a threatening email caused excitement on June 4, 2025. At 07:45 a.m., a local school received an alarming news that led to immediate evacuation with around 500 pupils and teachers. This threat was by no means an isolated case. Similar e-mails had already been received on May 28th and June 2, which indicated the same sender. Investigative measures quickly had an effect: At 10:30 a.m., the school was able to reconstruct another email from the unknown perpetrator, which revealed its threatening intentions. Thanks to intensive investigations, a 14-year-old student was finally identified as the author and confessed to have written the threats.

The e-steyr.com reports that the public prosecutor's office then decided to show young people at the open foot. Nevertheless, the student is delivered to a cost prescription for the enormous use of the emergency staff.

social backgrounds

The question of the social causes of such incidents is becoming increasingly louder. As the bmfsfj notes) Many suspects children and adolescents usually appeared once by the police. Only 5-10% of them commit several serious crimes. This shows that intensive offenders are often male and affected by complex social problems, such as social disadvantage, experiences of violence or school problems.

Prevention of youth crime has become more important in the past 20 years. There are now various successful concepts to prevent such incidents. The cooperation between school, police, judiciary and child and youth welfare was reinforced in order to be able to react even more specifically to such developments.

The way forward

The incidents in Vöcklabruck represent another example of how important preventive measures are. In a recent report by ORF it is noted that the exchange between the institutions and the development of effective strategies are of great importance. The Federal Ministry of Youth stimulates specialist discussions and has the suggestion competence to draw attention to unresolved problems and to develop new action concepts.

The developments are being observed, and it remains to be hoped that, by increased preventive measures, fewer students will be frightened by such threats in the future.