The terrible incident happened on Wednesday night in Sollenau (Lower Austria). the The 38-year-old is said to have gone with his daughter to the tracks of the southern railway line in front of an approaching Railjet heading towards Vienna (we have reported). The man and the child were fatally injured.The man was found guilty of bodily harm, property damage and trespassing, confirmed Birgit Borns from the regional court in Wiener Neustadt on Friday in an ORF Lower Austria report. Accordingly, he received three months conditionally.
Surveys had already been conducted against the 38-year-old from the Neunkirchen district in 2017 and 2018. “In two cases, the investigations were stopped, once there was a procedure,” Erich Habitzl, spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office in Wiener Neustadt, was quoted as saying by ORF. The man confessed in court – as he did when he was sentenced in November 2021, said Borns. The act was directed against the child’s mother, the spokeswoman said on request.
On November 15, 2021, the man was sentenced again at the Wiener Neustadt Regional Court. Because of severe coercion and dangerous threats, he received twelve months conditional imprisonment and an unconditional fine of 720 euros (180 daily rates of four euros). Associated with this was a court order for probation and obligatory psychotherapy. The 38-year-old “threatened the daughter’s death in the summer of 2021 in order to force the partner to continue living together,” said Borns.
According to the police, there is a suspicion of murder and suicide in relation to the incident on Wednesday night. The 38-year-old is said to have gone with his daughter to the tracks of the southern railway line in front of an approaching Railjet that was heading towards Vienna. The man and the child were fatally injured.
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