Horrible scenes took place a few weeks ago in the Vienna-Favoriten prison. After injuring himself several times over the past few days, a mentally disturbed assailant has gruesomely mutilated himself in a cell under video surveillance.
The Viennese Favoriten prison on Hardtmuthgasse has been regarded as a so-called special institution for years. Translated from industry jargon, this means that, among other things, mentally abnormal lawbreakers whose mental state is labeled ‘insane’ are housed here and receive medical and psychiatric treatment at the same time.
“Accommodated” is seriously mentally ill
A Georgian who has been serving his sentence there for some time – according to “Krone” information it would be fraud – only recently pushed all employees to their physical and mental limits. When he was transferred to Favoriten from another Austrian prison (also a special institution) it soon became clear that this was a particularly serious case, possibly paranoid schizophrenia.
Georgian hit the wall twice with his head
A few days before the horrific mutilation, the prisoner – in special institutions the term inmates, by the way – is said to have run head-on into a container parked in the courtyard and shortly afterwards with full force against the wall. It took several agents and drugs to calm the enraged man. On March 24, he was transferred back to prison from a Vienna hospital.
He stayed furious in the hospital
On the night of March 25-26, indescribable scenes played out in the detainee’s video cell. In one attack, the Georgian tore out his own eye. Confused officers, who had to watch the incredible scenes on a monitor, rescue the badly injured man from the cell. The Justice Department confirmed the horrific incident at Krone’s request. After being maimed, the mentally abnormal lawbreaker now rages through a Viennese hospital – guarded around the clock by prison guards.
Source: Krone
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