The pensioner from Switzerland and former restaurateur was discovered in his apartment in the city of Vienna on November 7th.
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In the case of the killing of a 70-year-old man in his apartment in downtown Vienna in November, a psychiatric report declared the man's former roommate mentally incompetent.
His lawyer Astrid Wagner explained this to the APA according to a report by oe24.at. This means that the 26-year-old, who is currently in custody, is likely to avoid murder charges. The public prosecutor's office could not be reached for confirmation late Sunday afternoon.
Your client suffers from a severe form of paranoid schizophrenia, Wagner told the APA. She therefore assumes that the Afghan will be accommodated in a forensic therapeutic facility in accordance with Section 21 Paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code. The man had already given confusing information during his police interrogation. “He did not express a motive, but said that he had killed the man together with the devil,” police spokeswoman Anna Gutt told the APA at the time.
The trail quickly led to the 26-year-old
The Swiss-born pensioner and former restaurateur was found dead in his apartment in downtown Vienna on November 7th. According to an autopsy, the man died from several serious stab wounds inflicted with a sharp object.
During investigations into the victim's circle of friends, investigators from the State Criminal Police Office finally found evidence of the Afghan, who was legally residing in Austria and had lived with the 70-year-old until shortly before the crime and was registered with the pensioner until September. The man was finally arrested on November 8th in Vienna-Simmering as a suspect on the street.
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