After the academy ball

Beating victim safe: “Perpetrator was on a trophy hunt”

The 60-year-old Styrian was knocked down on his way from the Akademikerball to the hotel.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/LPD Steiermark, zVg)

After the beating attack on a 60-year-old Styrian at the Academics' Ball in Graz, the Graz public prosecutor's office published the photograph of a suspect. In an interview with the "Krone" newspaper, the victim, who had fainted, lamented: "He stole my color!"

As reported, a Styrian man (60) and his family experienced pure horror on the night of 26 January: the man attended the Akademikerball at the Graz Congress with his wife and made his way to the hotel at around three in the morning. "We were just about to cross the road at the bank when I suddenly felt a burner. My wife told me later that I had flown past her," the man describes.