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Blood deed in Salzburg-Schallmoos: A 26-year-old man is urgently suspected of having stabbed his 22-year-old wife, who was separated from him, to death in their apartment on Sunday night, while the two children slept . . Explosive: The Serbian suspect was convicted in February of continued violence against his wife, and had also been barred from contact.
The act of terror took place in a block of flats on Röcklbrunnstrasse in Salzburg-Schallmoos. According to initial police information, the 26-year-old Serbian stabbed the 22-year-old Romanian several times with a kitchen knife.
The couple’s two children (seven months and three years, respectively) had already slept by this time. After the fact, the man called the babysitter who had often looked after the little ones and asked if she still had time, police spokeswoman Nina Laubichler told SN. The babysitter agreed and went to the young mother’s apartment.
Meanwhile, the Serbian hid the victim’s body in the accommodation so that the nanny could not see the dead man.
The 26-year-old then drove to the main station police station and told officers what he had just done. Police immediately moved to the apartment, where they found the woman dead, as well as the unsuspecting babysitter. The Red Cross ambulance team, which was also notified, could only determine the young woman’s death.
The investigation into the crime of homicide was carried out by police officers from the Salzburg State Criminal Police Office. Surveys began at night and continue until the hour. Interrogations of the man have not yet been completed and an autopsy on the 22-year-old is still pending. It is true that the murder weapon came from the victim’s kitchen.
The murder suspect was sentenced to partial detention only in February
However, SN’s investigation revealed something highly explosive: The 26-year-old murder suspect was only convicted at the Salzburg Regional Court on February 24 this year because, in addition to other violent crimes, he repeatedly abused his young wife since February 2018. to December 2020, according to a final judgment, he had hit and also suffocated regularly. Furthermore, according to the February verdict, he had repeatedly threatened to kill her. He literally threatened to “kill” her; he “wouldn’t mind hurting her” and “killing her like a chicken.”
Specifically, on February 24, 2021, the 26-year-old Serbian, a trained auto mechanic who most recently worked as a cleaner, received twelve months in partially conditional prison from a lay judge court, two months of which were unconditional, that is, to serve in prison. And not only that: the jury also explicitly prohibited the husband from contact, specifically the instruction to “refrain from any contact with his wife.”
The trigger for the trial against him was a celebration at the marital home with several relatives and relatives on December 25, 2020, Christmas Day. The 26-year-old suddenly freaked out at the party while under the influence of alcohol. With his knife drawn, he first attacked his wife’s brother and threatened to kill him. He then hit and kicked his wife’s mother and finally injured his wife’s father when he tried to take the knife from him. All family members were able to tame the 26-year-old at that time and lock him on the balcony. The young Serbian was arrested immediately; shortly after, he was incarcerated in custody.
The suspect has served an unconditional part of two months in total.
He was eventually found guilty of dangerous threats, attempted bodily harm, negligent bodily harm and, as mentioned, also for the crime of continuing violence against the 22-year-old wife. The attacks on the wife became known in the course of the investigation into the violent attacks of the now murder suspect at the family Christmas Day celebration. Before that, the Serb was innocent.
Just one day after the verdict, on February 25, the 26-year-old was released for having served the mandatory two-month sentence.
Lawyer Bernhard Loimer actively participated in the lay judge’s trial against the violent Serbian as a victim lawyer for the wife, now murdered: “It is terrible what has happened now. The husband, who is now a murder suspect, was convicted at that time. Among other things, because I had repeatedly threatened my client that he was going to kill her. Now, according to the investigation, he has carried out his threats in a terrible way. “
As Elena Haslinger, spokeswoman for the Public Ministry, told SN on Monday at lunchtime, the lawyer for the journalist responsible ordered the autopsy and chemical-toxicological examination of the body by forensic medicine on Monday night, immediately after it was produced the bloody and lethal act. known “.
