The suspect is noticeably short and talks a lot. He is accused of burglaries in residential buildings with almost 600,000 euros in damage, of which 200,00 euros was loot. He denies it – with adventurous explanations.
The Hungarian defendant is 73, less than 150 centimeters tall, has been retired since 2016 – and is said to be a professional burglar. This is already evident from his previous convictions: four convictions in his home country, one each in Germany and Switzerland – all for residential burglaries. He was already in jail for that.
Seven burglaries with almost 600,000 euros in damage
As the public prosecutor presented at the trial on Thursday, he is also said to have struck in this country: seven times between October 2021 and November 2022. The public prosecutor speaks of almost 600,000 euros in damage: the perpetrator acted in a targeted manner, always using the same method. . He drilled out the locks on patio doors, entered houses and opened safes – or took them away. He earned almost 200,000 euros in loot. In the event of a failed burglary, a safe would have contained as much as 370,000 euros in gold and money.
DNA traces are always found purely by chance at a crime scene
What the suspect can also do: talk for a long time. “I did not do these acts, there are no witnesses, no fingerprints. I didn’t enter the courtroom until I was 69,” the man emphasized. Judge Anna-Sophia Hofer had to stop him at the beginning of the trial when he started talking about his 24-year-old son: he studies in Los Angeles and is in the air force. He has already been to Las Vegas and lives with his wife in Verona.
Family members are asked for alibis
His attempts at explanation were also adventurous: during a burglary at a jewelry store in Linz, where his DNA was found, he “perhaps touched the broken shop window” while walking. In another case in Salzburg, he met a woman in a bar and drank with her. Later in the taxi she grabbed his crotch, he got out angrily – and went to sleep in the nearest garden shed. There he happened to touch the tool that was later used to break into the apartment next door. “I have never been in this apartment,” the senior said.
And at all other times of the crime he was in Hungary, as several family members can testify. The judge wants to hear this from the alleged alibi witnesses and has postponed the trial to May 28.
Source: Krone
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