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“Today we can announce three arrests in the Home Invasion case involving the Fill family,” confirmed State Police Director Andreas Pilsl in a press conference on Thursday, which OÖN readers already knew.
- To the OÖN exclusive report: After the robbery of former state councilor Fill: 3 suspects in custody
Through international cooperation, it was possible to arrest a 46-year-old North Macedonian, a 42-year-old German with Kazakh roots and a 28-year-old from Innviertel in the past few months. While the two people, who have multiple previous convictions, call the Upper Austrian tipster the “initiator,” according to Alois Ebner, head of the Ried public prosecutor’s office, he sees himself as a victim: “He says he was forced to reveal his knowledge of a rich family in Gurten.”
The investigation against the men, who are in custody at the Ried prison, is ongoing for aggravated robbery. You are strongly suspected of having entered the house of ex-state councilor Josef Fill via a kitchen window on the night of July 17, 2023. The 84-year-old, his wife (80) and daughter (60) were overpowered, tied up and injured in the bedrooms. The reports as to whether the women have post-traumatic stress disorders are still ongoing.
- From the archive: Brutal robbery on Josef Fill’s family: “A lot goes through your head”
The perpetrators stole watches, jewelry and cash worth five figures in euros, as Ebner notes. However, none of the loot has been recovered so far. “We are not at the end yet,” emphasized Ebner. The search is still underway for two previously unknown perpetrators.
It is also being determined whether the North Macedonian and the German had already been involved in burglaries in Leoben and Germany. “But you can imagine that really serious criminals were at work here,” said Ebner.
Spotted in the car
An incident that provided important clues to solving the case occurred three days before the attack: In a nearby forest, passers-by spotted a car with a North Macedonian license plate and reported it to the Aurolzmünster PI. “The officers checked the two inmates from Estonia,” said Gottfried Mitterlehner, head of the State Criminal Police Office. One was arrested because he was already wanted in Graz. “It was then obvious that both events were related,” said Mitterlehner.
DNA traces were found in the car and in the house.
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