This is a 45-year-old who had been missing since November 15, 2023, the Vienna State Police Directorate reported on Saturday morning. Criminal investigators now assume it was a homicide.
According to police, the 45-year-old is Iranian. The police did not want to comment on the identity of the dead man, citing victim protection reasons. According to police, he died from blunt force trauma and was then apparently dismembered with extreme brutality.
The man’s body parts were then thrown into the water. Investigators recently said they had probably been in the Marchfeld Canal for a long time. A police spokeswoman recently even spoke of “weeks or months”. The police now want to get to the bottom of the circumstances surrounding the man’s disappearance.
A week ago on Saturday, an angler pulled his foot out of the water in the Black Paint area. The police then searched the area extensively with the service dog unit and special divers from Cobra and found additional body parts.
