A dispute, apparently over a few bottles of beer, nearly killed one person in September 2021 in Innsbruck. Not far from the emergency shelter on Schusterbergweg in the east of the city, a Somali man has been found with two knife wounds in his stomach. It was attempted murder!
“We were actually good friends,” the suspect, 25, claimed at the Innsbruck Regional Court. But the two Somalis, who had been behind bars together and kept meeting each other in the emergency shelter in eastern Innsbruck, got into a fight one late September day in front of two drinking buddies.
Suspect arrested in train toilet
Both had already drunk well beyond their thirst. And suddenly the younger of the two pulled a knife. The 34-year-old was eventually taken to the clinic with two abdominal stitches and had to undergo emergency surgery. A day later, the man was out of danger. Meanwhile, the attacker went into hiding and was only arrested more than two months later in a toilet on a train in Bavaria.
“I was waving a bit with a knife that I found under a rock,” the suspect confessed. However, his compatriot was stabbed in the knife by one of the other people present. The suspect could not explain how the second stabbing happened.
Attempted homicide
Because coroner Walter Rabl was able to rule out that both abdominal stabs were accidental and the witnesses wanted to be far away when the incident happened, five of the eight jurors were convinced it was attempted murder. No final sentence: 20 years in prison!
Source: Krone
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