In 1992, he blew up the Ansfelden post in Upper Austria and shot and killed an officer. But even after 30 years in Stein Prison, Georg Brunnbauer felt innocent to the end. He wrote to the “Krone” before dying after a short time in freedom.
His reputation was anything but good, but the gendarme killer Georg Brunnbauer (69) from Ansfelden did not want to admit that until the end. The man who blew up the police station in his hometown in 1992, shot a police officer in Rutzing (municipality of Hörsching) and seriously injured two other officers, wrote a letter to the “Krone” from Stein prison in Krems an der Donau on September 5 ” -Editorial.
“Never Showed Regret”
In the neatly handwritten letter, he asked us to delete all his personal data from the years 2014 and 2016 on the internet, even quoting from a judgment of the European Court of Justice. The killer, who unscrupulously shot several bullets into the bodies of three young police officers with his Smith & Wesson at close range, felt sorry for himself to the end. He always claimed to be innocent.
Dead after a short time in freedom
The police officers are said to have come under “friendly fire”, shooting and shooting at each other to apprehend him. A strong story that the last head of the gendarmerie in Upper Austria, Major General Manfred Schmidbauer, immediately corrected in a conversation with the “Krone”: “That they were projectiles from a service weapon of the gendarmerie could not be ruled out.”
Now, after three decades, the last curtain has fallen with the death of the killer on December 2 at the Welser Klinikum.
Source: Krone
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