A deportation of two men escalated in Ohlsdorf (district of Gmunden) on Monday: A policewoman was injured in the neck.
At noon, the officers were enforcing a deportation order against a Somali and an Afghan (26). The latter fled, the other resisted arrest and attacked the officer.
The police searched the surrounding fields and forests by helicopter for the escaped man.
He was finally arrested in Gmunden, a few kilometres away, and will now be deported as planned, reported district police commander Gerhard Steiger in an interview with the “BezirksRundschau”.
According to a police statement, a 32-year-old asylum seeker from Somalia was arrested first. He defended himself violently and slightly injured a policewoman. The officers then tried to arrest a second asylum seeker, the 26-year-old, who is believed to have become violent in the course of the police action. However, he managed to flee into a nearby forest.
Since the Afghan was in possession of a Stanley knife, the Cobra task force, SIG forces, the police helicopter, a drone team, a service dog handler and several district patrols were also deployed in the manhunt. Due to a tip-off from the asylum centre, the fugitive was finally arrested shortly before 4 p.m. at the Esplanade in Gmunden and subsequently brought to the police detention centre in Linz.
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