In the case of a six-year-old boy who was found dead in the Kitzbüheler Ache in St. Johann in Tirol at the end of August last year, there is a surprising turnaround: the boy’s 38-year-old father was arrested Monday morning on suspicion of murder, the Innsbruck public prosecutor said with and confirmed online media reports from the “Tiroler Tageszeitung” and the Tyrol edition of the “Kronen Zeitung”.
There is also an urgent suspicion that the man had faked a robbery. Previously it had been assumed that the father of the mentally handicapped child had previously been knocked unconscious by an unknown person with a bottle on a promenade next to the Ache. After that, the six-year-old is said to have climbed out of the stroller on his own, fallen into the river and drowned there. This robbery should not have taken place.
Among other things, the man is said to have carried the bottle with which he was allegedly knocked down in the stroller himself, according to the reports. He also threw his cell phone in a trash can.
In previous interrogations, the 38-year-old denied the suspicion of murder and stuck to his previous account, the prosecution said. The Regional Court of Innsbruck will now decide whether to impose pre-trial detention.
