The residents of a Viennese apartment hatched an ‘intoxicating’ crime plan together – and faced a lay judge two days before Christmas.
What goes on behind the doors of Viennese apartments? A glimpse into room 106 of the regional court, where four defendants were tried on Thursday for aggravated robbery, provides a grim insight. “It’s my dad’s apartment,” said the first suspect, Sasa L. He didn’t know who lived there. There were many. Excessive drug use was common.
Two gas cannons were also used
Because the addiction was expensive, the residents hatched a plan in April. Sasa’s girlfriend Martina and a second woman would lure friendly drug couriers from the Czech Republic to the apartment on a case. When they arrived, she texted her boyfriend, “The one on the right has the drugs.” The housemates called. Masked and armed with pistols, they apparently pretended to be plainclothes police officers, robbed money and drugs worth €2,500 and then bound their victims with cable ties.
All perpetrators are heavily addicted to drugs
On the day of the crime, Sasa had consumed five grams of crystal meth. “A part that could knock over an elephant,” explains his lawyer Guilherme Spiegelberg. “My brain was completely blown away, I don’t remember anything,” said the defendant. But the crime was organized far too rigidly for the lay judges: five years in prison for Sasa, seven years for Martina – not legally binding. The co-defendants accepted their somewhat lenient sentences.
Source: Krone
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