After a 52-year-old Viennese allegedly murdered two men with liquid ecstasy and drugged and robbed a third and has been in custody since early May, he has now been charged with fatal rape, abuse of a defenseless person and aggravated robbery. There is no trial date yet.
In the end, as the spokeswoman for the Vienna Prosecution Authority Nina Bussek explained, the evidence and expert opinions obtained were not sufficient to file a murder charge in the regional criminal court. However, this has no meaning for the sentence insofar as the manslaughter of which the man is now accused is also threatened with ten to twenty years or life. In addition, the public prosecutor has requested that the man be placed in an institution for mentally disturbed offenders. According to a psychiatric report, although he is of sound mind, he has a very disturbed personality disorder that makes him extremely dangerous.
The 52-year-old has been incarcerated in Vienna-Josefstadt prison since last fall. The man is suspected of murdering two men he met on a gay dating platform in mid-May and late September 2021 in his apartment in Vienna-Penzing during Chemsex.
Liquid Ecstasy in excess
He is said to have injected excessive amounts of liquid ecstasy into their left upper arm and – according to the prosecutor at least with conditional intent – agreed to the death of the two men. He tried to “find a vein” in the 43-year-old. Neighbors noticed the smell of rot in October and alerted the police, who initially did not search the property because the officers did not smell anything suspicious. The 52-year-old eventually went to a police inspection himself and stated that there was a dead person in his apartment.
One died on September 30, the other on May 14, although the police initially assumed that this was not intentional manslaughter, but a “drug death”. He is reported to continue to deny any criminal conduct. After his arrest, he explained that he and the 43-year-old had “slam”, i.e. had consumed psychoactive substances intravenously for the purpose of added pleasure.
Forced to have sex
The prosecutor’s office does not believe the man’s claim. The prosecution believes the man in this case is charged with the murder of which he is accused – he initially used violence to force the 43-year-old to tolerate sexual intercourse and then continued to abuse him after he was in a defenseless state . condition as a result of the liquid ecstasy – to be able to prove.
Second victim with flat tires
However, with a second death, the situation is different. The suspect had also arranged a sex appointment with this man. Like the 43-year-old who died, the corpse had a hole in the left elbow, and toxicology tests also found traces of GHB, in amounts believed to be poisoning. This man’s cause of death was the resulting lack of oxygen.
accusation of theft
The indictment also contains a robbery, in which liquid ecstasy would have played a role. On June 5, 2021, a third man met the 51-year-old for a sex date. However, he did not find the 51-year-old particularly sympathetic when he appeared with him and therefore, according to the charges, refused intimate contact. The 51-year-old persuaded him to take a parting drink, in which he allegedly mixed the psychotropic substance into the drink and drugged him. After he put the man out of action, the 51-year-old would have taken money and valuables totaling 18,000 euros from him. The victim awoke hours later from the twilight state.
The suspect already has 13 previous convictions. An indication of his abnormal personality structure could be a conviction from more than 30 years ago, according to a psychiatric report. At a young age, the man was convicted of animal cruelty after butchering 13 cats and some zebra finches.
Source: Krone
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