A day after the breakneck chase through the center of Salzburg, the accused commonman, 33, had his lawyer say: “I’m sorry.” Now he should be in custody. The “Krone” traced the route of the crazy ride.
City dwellers will clutch their heads at the route of the completely insane ride: “He drove through here?” The 33-year-old even raced over the Müllner Steg and through the Kurgarten – next to the tourist hotspot Mirabellgarten. Police said passers-by had to jump to the side. A cyclist wanted to stop him and dodged in time – the bike hit the handlebars.
Driver under the influence of cannabis and cocaine
The motive? The suspect won’t say anything. He remained silent during the police interrogation. But: About his lawyer, the well-known Salzburg lawyer Kurt Jelinek, the local lower house kicker says: “He has confessed. He’s sorry.” The fact is: the formerly completely innocent 33-year-old was drunk on drugs – he now had cannabis and cocaine.
The odyssey started at the intersection of Hübnergasse and Neutorstrasse. “He honked and gestured there several times,” Marcus Neher of the public prosecutor’s office reports. Officials saw this and wanted to check on the driver. He then fled on the run from the police on one-way streets, in the opposite lane, and even on bike paths and sidewalks. Up to the Andrä district. There in the Schrannengasse, a police car rammed the athlete’s company car, which drove into a bus stop and stopped on the sidewalk. An arrest followed: several police officers pulled the unpredictable driver from his car and pinned him to the ground. According to information from “Krone”, the aggressive 33-year-old had defended himself en masse against the police officers. Four officers were injured, according to police.
Neher is now investigating deliberate community endangerment, multiple coercion, attempted bodily harm and defiance of state authority: “We have filed for pre-trial detention.”
Source: Krone
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