Dumbbell Bar as a Weapon
Civic Courage in Vienna Ended in a Skull Fracture
A woman is followed and attacked by a 35-year-old man in Vienna on her way home. Shortly afterward, the assailant struck a passerby who rushed to her aid over the head with a barbell—resulting in life-threatening injuries and emergency surgery! The mentally ill man has an unusual explanation for the brutal attacks on his two random victims.
Kronen Zeitung als bevorzugte Google-Quelle hinzufügen “Thank you very much for your courage that evening,” Judge Christoph Kraushofer tells the tall 29-year-old, whose life took a dramatic turn on February 22. The same was true for a young artist who was on her way home from the Prater to Vienna’s Währing district that evening—when a young man caught her attention on the streetcar: “Even on the No. 1 tram, the man gave me a strange feeling. He then got on the No. 41 with me and kept staring at me.”
Even on the No. 1 tram, that man gave me a strange feeling. He then got on the No. 41 tram with me and kept staring at me.
Die Frau sagte im Landl unter Tränen aus.
Frightened, the woman called her partner and asked him to pick her up at the Aumannplatz stop. But she arrived there before he did. The man who had been following her actually got off the tram with her. When she asked him, “What do you actually want from me?”, the 35-year-old immediately started beating her.
Later, the victim heard “agony-filled cries for help”
Passersby also heard the terrified screams. A man who was on his way home with his girlfriend after a birthday party didn’t hesitate. “Those were anguished cries for help—you don’t think twice in a situation like that,” he said during the trial. “I saw that people were already taking care of the woman, so I went after the man who was walking quickly away from the scene.”
Those were agonized cries for help—you don’t think twice in a situation like that.
Wiener bewies Zivilcourage, wurde aber selbst zum Opfer.
What he didn’t realize at the time was that the man was carrying a barbell converted into a baton in his backpack. The perpetrator suddenly struck the courageous Viennese man over the head with it—the man who acted with civic courage suffered a skull fracture, sustained life-threatening injuries, and had to undergo emergency surgery at the AKH that very night.
Attacker Suffers from Paranoid Schizophrenia
But who was the brutal attacker? A 35-year-old Viennese man who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and is therefore not criminally responsible. “The woman attacked me with telematic rays on the streetcar,” he said as the defendant during the trial. “I followed her to take revenge for what she did.” He then, according to his own statements, also classified the man who ran after him following the blows as part of the “group of telemagnetists.” “I defended myself with the barbell. It was a bad decision.”
Citing a high risk to public safety, the jury ordered him to be committed to a psychiatric facility.
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