The senior is even charged with attempted murder. He is said to have driven his car towards an opponent. He pleaded not guilty and presented his own version that he was the victim. Overall, several people were injured in the incident. The main defendant was driving that day with 0.92 per mille intus. In Ottnang (Vöcklabruck district), he led a dispute out of the car with another drunk and his friend, who were walking home. Because he would not leave the two men alone, one of the two opened the car door and leaned in, according to the prosecution. The 66-year-old is said to have stepped on the gas and dragged the other around 60 meters. Then he is said to have approached his opponent again at 25 to 30 km/h and shouted “I fia di down!”. The other managed to get to safety by jumping sideways. The man “probably owes it to a guardian angel” that he was only slightly injured, according to the prosecutor.
Accused called reinforcements
The 66-year-old apparently said that he needed further support and called his two adult sons, aged 25 and 28, who had multiple previous convictions, for help. The younger Filius is said to have uttered wild threats against several people present at the crime scene and injured two police officers who had meanwhile arrived and wanted to restrain him. The older son is said to have jumped with stretched legs against the friend of the drunk who was apparently dragged along with the car, but missed him. According to the indictment, he then attacked a bystander on the same meadow and inflicted a femoral neck fracture on him. During the subsequent arrest, the 28-year-old is said to have injured a police officer.
Paramedics had to lock themselves in the car
The mood of the defendants was extremely aggressive, the prosecutor described. This also shows, among other things, that the paramedics had meanwhile locked themselves in the car to protect themselves.
The father, who has been in custody since the beginning of November, has not yet commented on the allegations. In court, he pleaded not guilty and described the incident completely differently: the drunk night owl called him “shit Jugo” – the night owl admitted as a witness that that was true – “but I’ve been Austrian for 40 years and have always worked hard “. He wanted to confront the man, but he punched and kicked him. He just “escaped with his life,” he said. The 66-year-old does not want to have dragged the other along – he said he was “clinging to the car” – nor did he drive towards him. His defense attorney had previously stressed to the jury that the supreme court classifies driving a car into someone else without the intention to kill as a dangerous threat.
Sons not yet questioned
However, the client only wants to be “hit where” twice, once on the sidewalk, once at a traffic sign, because he was drunk. “If I had called the police, I would not be sitting here today as a perpetrator but as a victim,” but he did not do it for fear of losing his driver’s license, said the retired truck driver, who also contradicted the details of his sons’ previous statements . These are to be heard later in the day.
The younger son also pleaded not guilty. His well-formulated description of the night of the crime, largely in imperfect tense, which was not always entirely correct, also came down to the fact that his family had been threatened and beaten. He even claims to have heard how the other witnesses at the scene – including a paramedic – were already arranging what they would say to the police. He doesn’t want to have hit a police officer with his fist, as accused, but at most accidentally hit him with his elbow.
The older son pleaded partially guilty – only to resist. According to him, his father and brother were beaten by several people. His mother, who had come with him to the scene, was also beaten. The police did nothing against the attackers and fixed him instead. According to a police officer, he broke free when putting on the handcuffs. The accused, however, said that the officer had opened the handcuffs again. He then jumped in the chest of a man who had previously hit his father. Why did he tear up the protocol with the detention and legal protection judge? “I was angry about what was said there because it wasn’t true,” the “paragraphs” were wrong.
The Wels public prosecutor charged the 66-year-old with attempted murder and attempted bodily harm. The 25-year-old is accused of dangerous threats, resistance to state authority and serious bodily harm, the 28-year-old of serious and deliberately serious bodily harm and also resistance to state authority. The trial is scheduled for two days, and a verdict is expected on February 23.
Source: Nachrichten
