On Wednesday, a Montenegrin (40) will stand trial in Wels on suspicion of murder. He is accused of stabbing to death a Bosnian man of the same age out of jealousy. He also allegedly threatened to kill his wife. Psychiatrist Adelheid Kastner testifies that the man has a narcissistic personality disorder.
On March 31 of the previous year, the suspect “murdered with five powerful stab wounds” an employee at his company’s warehouse in Marchtrenk (Wels-Land district) whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife. He then forced a 19-year-old employee with the bloody knife to drive him to a cafe.
On the way he called his wife and said:
That is why the prosecutor accuses him of coercion and dangerous threats in addition to murder.
“Out of unfounded, angry jealousy.”
The 40-year-old committed the crime out of “unfounded, angry jealousy,” the prosecutor said. The man “actually had everything”: family, house, a business and a good income. A few years ago he started drinking, using cocaine, going to brothels and abusing his wife. A month before the bloody act against the Bosnian man, he was sentenced to a suspended prison sentence for persistent violence against his wife.
Employees are always suspected
The prosecutor explained that he repeatedly suspected associates, most recently the Bosnian who had no fixed address and slept in a tent in Linz. On the day of the crime, the three men – the suspect, the later victim and the 19-year-old – came to the storage room together in a car. While the 19-year-old was still in the car and wanted to park, the other two got out and the 40-year-old immediately attacked his alleged rival. He then forced the 19-year-old to drive him to a cafe. He said he would have coffee now and then go to jail. He also allegedly announced loudly in the bar that he had killed someone.
Caught in a major manhunt
After coffee, according to his statement, he drove towards Linz because he wanted to turn himself in to the police, which the public prosecutor doubts: “I remind you that the defendant’s wife lives in Linz.” The Montenegrin was only caught as part of a major manhunt that was already underway.
Originally it was a “picture book family”
Lawyer Andreas Mauhart described the story in a similar way: It was a “perfect family” until his client started drinking and drinking Coke. “Then he saw rivals everywhere and that’s why the marriage failed. He then told the jury in detail and colorfully what his client had told him the night before the crime. Accordingly, he was with an imam, wanted to go to the hospital because he felt bad, was driven by jealousy, and in his drug intoxication he also believed that the future victim wanted to kill him.
Pleaded guilty
The Montenegrin herself pleaded guilty. He was ‘done’, ‘I really believed my wife was cheating on me’ and his employee wanted to kill him. He had the murder weapon, a large knife, with him to cut bacon. However, the chairman had ‘imagined’ a typical bacon knife differently. The defendant, who remained relatively silent, faces ten to twenty years in prison or life in prison. It is uncertain whether a ruling will be made on Wednesday.
Source: Krone
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