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By Reinhard Fellner
Innsbruck – In the summer of 2018, a young Tyrolean girl met a surf instructor while on vacation in Mexico. The spark between the two was such that the woman stayed in Mexico until December, there was talk of marriage. A year later, the woman’s long distance relationship came to an end. During her visit to Mexico in late 2019, the zipline wanted to make this clear, but the Mexican persuaded her to continue. Since then, the now 26-year-old had visited the woman in Innsbruck without warning, resulting in conflict, violence and, finally, in February, an attempted murder by strangulation.
Prosecutor Florian Oberhofer on Tuesday before a jury court: “The defendant started a procedure like in psychological thrillers. Even before the assassination attempt, he had stolen the key to the woman’s apartment and waited for her there, a chair in the middle of the room where he had gagged and bound the victim. On the table were a knife and a skewer of meat. Then he continued stroking the woman’s throat with the knife. The incident lasted 30 minutes until the defendant collapsed crying on the lap of his ex-girlfriend. “
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Sacrifice is still alive luckily
Good luck to the Tyrolean, who received another unexpected visit from the man in February. Most recently at the hotel where he worked as a receptionist. The 26-year-old arrived on a skateboard and with two per thousand. A first glance was enough for the woman that now it would be better to pick up the scissors from the desk. But the man was stronger and knocked her unconscious. When he thought he had strangled her, he dragged her around the hotel on a skateboard to hide “the body.”
However, an attentive guest molested the 26-year-old and called the police in advance on suspicion. The strangled woman also woke up. According to coroner Walter Rabl, he was once again lucky that he survived. After all, “congestion syndromes” could already be seen in the eyes from the lack of oxygen.
Jealousy and extenuating insecurity in the relationship are said to be the motive for the atrocities. Judge Andreas Mair: “Strangling your partner doesn’t usually save relationships, does it?” The lawyer Annamaria Lechthaler received compensation of 7,000 euros for the pain and suffering of the Tyrolean. In the end, the jury unanimously did not believe that the perpetrator of the person who was awakened in the hotel corridor had voluntarily renounced the assassination attempt: therefore, the 15-year prison sentence was not legally binding.
