After a 74-year-old man attacked his recently divorced ex-partner in her apartment with a knife on Sunday morning and inflicted multiple cuts in Vienna-Floridsdorf, the suspect has now been arrested in Lower Austria. The man is suspected of attempted murder.
The 74-year-old left the home on Sunday morning after the crime when neighbors became aware of the attack. The woman fled to the stairwell, but the man followed her and stabbed her several times.
Wanted to hide in a toilet
A day later, according to the Viennese police, the suspect was tracked down and arrested in a single-family home in the Gänserndorf district of Lower Austria by agents of the criminal investigation department and the special unit EKO Cobra, directorate for special forces. The man tried to hide in a toilet, but then allowed himself to be arrested without resistance. The man will be questioned on Tuesday.
The victim suffered deep lacerations
The 74-year-old came to his 58-year-old ex-partner’s apartment on Sunday morning, attacked her with pepper spray and threatened to kill her. The man then attacked the victim with a knife. Local residents were aware of the incident and alerted the police. Officers from the Trillergasse Inspectorate gave first aid to the woman, who was found injured in the stairwell, before the ambulance service took her to a hospital. The 58-year-old had sustained deep cuts on various parts of his body, but his life was not in danger.
Source: Krone
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