New details after the horror attack on a couple in Würnitz (Lower Austria). A total of three bullets were fired. The Romanian robber who was shot by the 71-year-old is still unresponsive.
Where dozens of police officers had locked down a single-family home the day before and crime scene investigators painstakingly secured evidence, only a carpenter’s truck was parked Thursday morning. The crowds after the horror attack in the Weinviertel town of Würnitz have diminished.
The family dog sounded the alarm
As reported, three sinister figures entered the building. The family dog barked and barked, waking his wife, 50, from her sleep. Then everything happened very quickly: the unscrupulous trio did not hesitate for long. One of the intruders beat the woman with an iron bar until her husband (71) could rush to help.
Shot at robbers with a revolver
The rest is known: the pensioner took his legal revolver (he has a firearms permit) and shot the robbers away. It now appears that the owner of the house pulled the trigger three times: one of the burglars, a Romanian, was hit in the upper body. He could not yet be questioned.
“Acted in self-defense”
“My client clearly acted in self-defense,” said Peter Philipp, the shooter’s lawyer. “He had to defend his wife, who had been attacked earlier. The case is very clear to me. The men acted with a brutality I had never seen before.” Video recordings of the crime are intended to prove this.
The 71-year-old himself did not want to give an interview about the incident on Thursday, while he was standing by the carpenter’s car. In the “Krone” conversation he just says this: “I’m not a hero. I just did what everyone should do.”
Source: Krone
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