Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) therefore has a “problem child”, as he said on Monday at the presentation of the police from 2024. Strictly speaking, it is not one, there are many: namely all those young people who gave rise to 34,806 criminal charges last year. In particular, the group of ten to 14-year-olds, who are considered suspect in 12,049 cases- twice as many as a few years ago.
