Because the son-in-law of a real estate entrepreneur had an affair with the wrong daughter, he would die. As a result, two men have already been sentenced to life imprisonment. A 48-year-old was sentenced to 11 years for his involvement in the murder attempt – but the jury is said to have been wrong.
It is a criminal case that has been going on for exactly five years. And in December 2022, it was considered complete – when the verdict against the supposedly last participant in an assassination attempt became final.
What happened on November 18, 2018?
The reason for the assassination attempt was – as is so often the case – an insult to honor. The victim was the son-in-law of a real estate entrepreneur of Turkish descent. He arranged a marriage for his daughter to the man. But the victim did not remain faithful and fathered a child with his sister-in-law, his wife’s sister and the real estate entrepreneur’s second daughter.
A betrayal in the eyes of the real estate entrepreneur: he wanted to get rid of his ex-son-in-law. To do this, he hired a hitman for a corresponding amount of 10,000 euros. Who on November 18, 2018 in the Hippgasse in Ottakring, knocked the victim down with an elongated tubular tool and seriously injured him.
Life sentence for father-in-law and hit man
The investigation into the attack took a long time. In 2019, the ex-father-in-law was convicted of murder, and three years later the direct perpetrator was convicted of attempted murder. Both were sentenced to life imprisonment – now legally binding.
But another man is said to be involved: a 48-year-old employee in the real estate entrepreneur’s company. He is said to have known about the plan and handled the payment to the hitman. Accusations that were based purely on the statement of the intended perpetrator.
Was eleven years in prison for a 48-year-old a mistake?
That was enough for the jury in Vienna in February 2022. They found him guilty as an accomplice and sentenced him to eleven years in prison. Nevertheless, the 48-year-old is now back in the Vienna Regional Court without handcuffs, as a free man.
Because: “He only made a false statement out of revenge because he sold his property and took his money,” says the ex-fellow prisoner of the real estate entrepreneur, who wrote a letter to one of the defense lawyers about a year ago , Marcus Januschke. . He is said to have learned that the intended perpetrator had wrongly charged the 48-year-old.
New jury trial in Vienna
Therefore, the Vienna Supreme Court decided that the case should be renegotiated. In the grand jury courtroom in Vienna, lawyers Marcus Januschke and Michael Dohr argue for acquittal this time. Your client does not want to comment on the accusation and says that he suffers from severe post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the overturned verdict.
The prosecutor describes the two defense witnesses testifying in the new trial as “more than questionable.” After all, they are ‘prisoners’. But both argue that the suspect is innocent and was involved in the crime by the real estate entrepreneur. “I didn’t want anyone sitting there innocent,” someone in front of them told the jury.
Father-in-law discovers a plot to take over the company
The real estate entrepreneur, the main witness against the 48-year-old, testifies in the second trial and is released from prison. He discovers a huge conspiracy against him and his company: he would never have ordered the murder of his ex-son-in-law, only mentioned in an argument that he deserved a beating. The suspect merely waited until he was in custody to take control of his company. “His plan is to take over my company,” says the 58-year-old witness emotionally.
The convicted ‘hitman’ surprises with his statement: the 48-year-old has ‘nothing to do with the case’. He himself is innocent and is seeking a new trial.
Because the Public Prosecution Service submitted a request for evidence, which was granted, the trial was postponed to January 9.
Source: Krone
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