On October 25th, three underage girls attacked a 12-year-old schoolgirl. They ambushed her in the 12th district of Vienna and dragged her onto the roof of a block of flats in Zeleborgasse in the afternoon, reports the newspaper Heute. There, the girls threatened to push Maria (name changed by the editors) off the roof. Later, the following is said to have taken place in a garage: The suspects allegedly set Maria’s hair on fire and tore out eyelashes. They punched and kicked her. The gang injured her victim’s thumb with a knife and destroyed her smartphone.
The bleeding child had to be taken to a hospital in Vienna with bruises, a cut and injuries to her stomach and head – a video of the abuse is currently circulating on social media.
The gang of three intimidated Maria so that she wouldn’t tell her parents about the abuse. In return, she was supposed to ‘swear on Allah’ into a mobile phone camera. ‘Have video like you say, by Allah, I won’t press charges,’ a teenager apparently wrote to the victim on Snapchat.
The girls threatened further violent attacks as Maria’s parents pressed charges. The gang allegedly swore revenge on Snapchat. The parents fear that something will happen to their child again on the way to school or at home. The Vienna police confirmed to ‘Heute’ that they are currently investigating the case.