The case of Erec H. from Bad Sauerbrunn, who was shot, is being investigated in three directions. The findings from the post-mortem examination have now also been completed.
According to the police, a relationship dispute was the reason for the momentous operation last Friday in Bad Sauerbrunn. In a house on Wiesener Strasse, a conflict between the tenant (55) and his wife (60) escalated around 2:30 p.m., according to the first alarm report. The German allegedly attacked a police officer with a machete, injuring the officer.
Attacker was hit
After using pepper spray and several warning shots into the ground, the attacker was hit by projectiles from a police officer’s service weapon. Widow Gabriele K. said two of the four shots hit the heart and lungs. The Eisenstadt Public Prosecutor’s Office cannot confirm this at this time.
Gunshot wound resulted in death
Only the findings during the post-mortem examination by the forensic medicine department have been completed. “For now it is only clear that a gunshot wound led to the death of the 55-year-old man,” Petra Bauer, spokeswoman for the Eisenstadt public prosecutor’s office, said on Monday. Further questions still remain unanswered.
Further investigations are underway
Answers are expected within three weeks with the written autopsy report, Bauer added. At the same time, internal investigations by the Vienna State Criminal Investigation Department into the deadly use of service weapons are running at full speed. The state police checks how the police were warned and what the operational scenario looked like in detail.
As reported, the widow explained that she had not been threatened by her husband, but that he had called emergency services to request psychiatric help. It is already clear that the 55-year-old himself called the emergency number. Erec H. had the machete in his hand when the officers arrived for ‘yard work’, his wife claimed.
Widow criticizes the actions of the police
She sharply criticized the actions of the police. Her husband was ‘very sociable and sensitive’, an ‘artist, actor and environmentalist’. However, so far it has not been mentioned that Erec H., who also appears on social media under the name Erec OK, is listed as Secretary General of the European Association for a Fair and Effective Drug Policy.
Cannabis found in the house
After the tragedy in Bad Sauerbrunn, the direct connection with drugs could no longer be hidden. The rented home contained large quantities of cannabis. Eight shell casings from shots fired from the service weapon were also found. Some of them were discovered in the adjacent garden. Another finding from the study: after using pepper spray, the machete man would have become significantly more aggressive and unpredictable.
Why not shot in the leg?
Given the difficult situation, questions that have arisen on internet forums include why the attacker was not shot in the leg to stop him. “If an armed man is on a high dose of adrenaline and may have been on heavy drugs, a shot in the leg is not going to stop him. The danger cannot be averted that easily,” is the response from experienced emergency services.
Source: Krone
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