It is a massive accusation that the Tyrolean police and the Innsbruck public prosecutor’s office have made once morest a suspect (39): In August 2022, he is said to have thrown his disabled son (6) into the Kitzbüheler Ache in order to let him drown. He is then said to have faked a robbery on himself in order to make the child’s drowning look like an accident.
The Tyrolean has been in custody on suspicion of murder since February 2023. Now his defenders Albert Heiss and Mathias Kapferer are massively criticizing the police and the judiciary. There were “mishaps and errors” during the investigation and the “amateur” forensics, and this was even confirmed by official reports.
Image: WOLFGANG EDER (APA)
Disposed of by the street sweeper?
Less than half of the shards that came from the bottle with which the father, according to the prosecution, knocked himself unconscious have been secured and examined. The rest was allegedly disposed of by a street sweeper.
It is also wrong that the father googled “fainting” shortly before the crime; that was proven to have been weeks before, in a different context. DNA traces of an unknown male person were found at the crime scene. According to the criticism, these are being “held back”.
There were also foreign DNA traces of an unknown man on the jacket of the dead child who washed up on a sandbank, says Heiss. It might also have arisen subsequently during rescue and recovery operations, says the lawyer. The point is, you don’t know. In any case, the lawyer says he can no longer see any urgent suspicion.
On Friday, the court will decide on the defense’s application for release from custody.
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