The public prosecutor’s office in Steyr has submitted a corresponding application for placement. A spokesman for the prosecution confirmed a media report to the APA when asked. As a psychiatric expert found, the man was insane at the time of the crime. According to the expertise, there is even a risk that he will commit another serious act due to his mental illness. The date for the jury trial, at which the admission will be decided, has not yet been set.
The 37-year-old was injured in the neck by the knife attack. One of the couple’s children alerted the executive, the OÖNachrichten reported. For seven days, the police searched for the suspect 40-year-old, who had fled the apartment in only underwear. The arrest by officials from the State Office of Criminal Investigation and the Linz City Police Command in the Ebelsberg district of Linz took place after a tip-off from the population. According to his own statements, the man had been hiding in a tarpaulin trailer the whole time, eating nothing and only drinking rainwater. A passerby noticed him because the man was only riding a bike in boxer shorts and a T-shirt.
Source: Nachrichten
