Police spokeswoman Barbara Gass told the APA. Accordingly, the body was discovered last Saturday, one day following the bloody act in Vienna. The police assume suicide.
No farewell letter was found on the dead person. At least the Vienna State Police Department currently has no information to this effect. The motive for the bloody act, which was attributed to the 53-year-old – the accountant had been the main suspect since Sunday at the latest – is still open. Since the bodies were found, the police have tried to find out by questioning family members whether the woman wanted to separate or whether there was a marital crisis. How far they had come was unclear on Tuesday evening. “We will of course finish the investigation,” said police spokeswoman Gass.
The dead man who was found on Saturday had no identification with him, so the Slovenian authorities only identified the man who died by suicide on Tuesday. As of today, the cause of death of the two victims who died violently has been determined. As the police told the APA, both were strangled.
The bodies of the two women were found on Friday morning in the family’s apartment on Erdbergstrasse. Since then, there has been no trace of the man until his whereregardings have been clarified. There is no reliable information regarding the suspect’s possible motives.
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SERVICE – The police are the contact person for people who perceive violence or are victims of violence themselves. The police emergency number can be reached at any time on 133.
In Austria, women who experience violence can also find help and information at the women’s helpline at: 0800-222-555, www.frauenhelpline.at; at the Association of Autonomous Austrian Women’s Shelters (AÖF) at www.aoef.at; the Vienna Intervention Center once morest Violence in the Family/Violence Protection Center Vienna: www.interventionsstelle-wien.at and the 24-hour women’s emergency number of the City of Vienna: 01-71719 as well as the women’s shelter emergency number on 057722 and the Austrian Violence Protection Centers: 0800/700-217; Victim emergency number: 0800 112 112, police emergency number: 133. Are you in a desperate life situation and need help? Talk to other people regarding it. The Ministry of Health’s suicide prevention portal offers help for people with suicidal thoughts and their relatives. Contact details for aid organizations in Austria can be found at www.suizid-praevention.gv.at
