Murder victim buried

“Pepi was brutally and viciously torn from life”

There were far more mourners than could fit into the parish church in Arnreit.(Bild: Markus Wenzel)

He was the second victim of the double murderer Roland Drexler: many wanted to accompany the murdered Josef Hartl (64) from Arnreit (Upper Austria) on his last journey, the church was bursting at the seams. The murder victim was a cheerful man whose passion for hunting was his undoing.

Thick clouds of fog hung over Arnreit on Thursday afternoon, shrouding the church in a dreary gray. A black flag waved in the wind at the municipal office opposite and a crowd of people formed in front of the church. So many people had come to pay their last respects to Josef Hartl, who was murdered on October 28, that there was nowhere near enough room for everyone inside the church.