Two teenagers were chased by an asylum seeker (23) across Leoben (Styria), the schoolgirls were scared to death. The mother of one of the girls raised the alarm, but the police were powerless. Chasing minors is not a punishable offence.
The incident in the early evening in the town centre of Leoben caused a stir in the social media. There, a mother warns of asylum seekers who have been following her daughter (14) and her girlfriend of the same age pushily across the city. What is also upsetting is that the police, who were on the scene in time after the call and acted correctly, allegedly have no further means of preventing a recurrence.
The underage teenagers were on their way home on foot towards Judendorf at around 5.30 pm. At first two young asylum seekers followed them, later only one. With every metre they walked, the schoolgirls’ unease increased and they kept turning around to look for their pursuer. When their fear was almost unbearable, one of the girls called her mother on her mobile phone: “Stay together, don’t leave the street,” she advised her daughter. At the same time, the teenager’s brother called the police.
The officers were quickly on the scene with several patrols and the asylum seeker (23) was apprehended. He is accommodated in the old Baumax hall in Leoben. “He admitted to chasing the girls, but could not explain why,” the district police commander of Leoben, Karl Holzer, confirmed the incident to the newspaper “Kleine Zeitung”. However, since there had been no criminally relevant incident, the police’s hands were tied. No further measures were taken.