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Austria Now News – Vienna
Unknown perpetrators damaged three cigarette vending machines in Vienna’s Favoriten district on two consecutive days using firecrackers and fireworks, Vienna police announced.
Two incidents at different locations
According to police, a cigarette vending machine was damaged by a firework on Saturday, 31 October. On Sunday, 1 November, two more cigarette vending machines at another location in the same district were badly damaged by firecrackers.
Police were able to secure evidence at the scene, and explosives experts were called in for both incidents.
Perpetrators unknown
The identity of the perpetrators is not yet known, and police have not said whether they took money or goods from the machines. The investigation is ongoing.
In the early hours of Saturday, a cigarette vending machine was also blown up with a powerful firecracker in Vienna’s Döbling district, on a weekend that saw a large number of firecracker-related incidents in the capital.
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Vienna Police (Landespolizeidirektion Wien) – press release on damaged cigarette vending machines in Wien-Favoriten – 01.11.2026
