A 44-year-old man is suspected of attempting a robbery at a drugstore in Vienna by threatening an employee with a knife, police said. The incident happened on 7 November 2026 at Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus. The man allegedly demanded cash after threatening a staff member in the shop. The employee managed to escape the threat and ran with a colleague into a storage room. From there, the two women called the police emergency number. While police were being contacted, the suspect allegedly tried to force open the cash register with the knife. The blade broke during the attempt, and the man fled without taking any money. A witness told officers the direction of his escape along the Sechshauser Straße toward the city centre. During a rapid search, police from the Tannengasse police inspection arrested the suspect not far from the scene. Investigators with the Lower Austria State Criminal Police Department in Vienna, West branch, took over the case, police said. The suspect remains in custody as the investigation continues into the suspected attempted robbery.