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A 20-year-old woman was “raped in an excruciating way” in an apartment in Vienna-Floridsdorf “and died as a result,” explained the prosecutor Murder before: “They raped her to death”. The details of the indictment are so terrible that they are not suitable for media reporting for legal considerations and for reasons of victim protection – the mother of the 20-year-old joined the criminal proceedings as a private party. The accused – the younger man has no criminal record to date, the 31-year-old has four previous convictions – face ten to 20 years or life imprisonment and accommodation in a forensic-therapeutic facility in the event of a conviction in accordance with the indictment. According to a report by the psychiatric expert, both were of sound mind at the time of the crime, but have a combined personality disorder that makes them dangerous if they are not placed in a special prison where therapeutic measures are guaranteed to accompany their detention. The trial is scheduled for two days, with the verdicts expected next Thursday.
“Extraordinary” use of force
According to the indictment, the 31-year-old is said to have abused the woman, which led to a dispute between the two men. The 26-year-old took him into his 36 square meter apartment because he didn’t have his own place to stay and was homeless. After all, both are said to have abused their victim with extraordinary violence, which led to massive bleeding in the physically inferior and therefore defenseless woman. When she lost consciousness, according to the indictment, she was given a cold shower. Before the rescue was called at 9.51 am for the woman who was already unconscious at that time, the accused are said to have carried out cleaning work in the apartment or on objects in order to cover up the violent events that had taken place hours before. “They didn’t manage to remove the traces. Everything was full of blood,” said the prosecutor.
The 31-year-old’s defense attorney, Manfed Arbacher-Stöger, announced a comprehensive confession from his client: “Everything you have heard from the prosecutor is correct. Exactly as you explained it. His client will “tell everything”. Regarding the motive, Arbacher-Stöger remarked that the defendants “rocked each other up” and that “one thing led to another”.
“Caught in the Wake of Evil”
The 26-year-old, who was actually in a relationship with another woman and had had a “friendship plus” with the dead woman, as the prosecutor put it, pleaded “not guilty”. “I didn’t attack her all night,” he claimed in his interrogation. He “didn’t notice” what his friend (“He was there for me, like I was there for him at the beginning”) did to the young woman. She suddenly got into bed with him and vomited when he was already asleep. That woke him up, the 31-year-old carried the drunk woman into the bathroom – before the incriminated crimes occurred, the three of them drank Jägermeister and whiskey in the apartment: “He said he would take care of it.” He himself had freshly made the bed “so that she had a fresh bed”. He didn’t notice any blood, and nothing else struck him as odd. Only later, early in the morning, did he realize that something must have happened: “I was shocked and speechless myself.” His friend had “showered off” the 20-year-old in the bathroom and assured him that she was “doing better”. He trusted him: “It was all too much for me at that moment. I didn’t know what to think. I didn’t know what to do.”
“I’ve come to the conclusion that he’s innocent and that he got involved in this story,” said the 26-year-old’s defense attorney, Astrid Wagner. There is “no physical evidence that concerns him”. During the crime (“It’s really a terrible story”), her client “lay paralyzed in the next room and fell asleep”. “He was sucked into evil by the second accused and was unable to help the girl,” said Wagner.
Source: Nachrichten
