Nearly a decade after her crimes, a 35-year-old Italian woman sits before a judge at the Vienna Regional Court. The beautiful woman tearfully apologizes for her burglaries in Austria in 2015. In addition to the three crimes she confessed to, there is a DNA hit on a prominent victim: ex-ORF general director Alexander Wrabetz, who was a witness, appears in Begin In 2014 the courthouse was broken into. The damage: 28,000 euros. She does not confess to this crime, but gives a moving reason for the other burglaries.
Due to a DNA hit, ex-ORF general director Alexander Wrabetz received surprising news from the court. A call for witnesses arrived at the Rapid president’s home. It concerns a burglary in February 2014 at his home in Vienna-Döbling. “We were at a birthday party with our children. The burglary happened during that period through the basement window,” recalls the 64-year-old, who is surprised that a woman was the perpetrator.
Two ex-general managers as victims
He got off relatively lightly. During a new burglary, the woman stole half a million euros. Curious: Wrabetz is not the only former general manager who fell victim to the Italian: the Italian was also active with one of his predecessors, former general manager Monika Lindner. Wrabetz and Lindner unexpectedly met as witnesses in court and hugged each other with the words “You too?”
“The burglary at your home is not included in the indictment. A DNA hit later led to the suspect,” the judge tells him at the start of his short witness interview.
Perpetrator hoped for therapy for sick son
The accused Italian woman’s motivation to commit the crimes has a sad background. “My client has four children, one of whom is seriously ill and suffers from a serious developmental disorder. She was then approached by the wrong people. She was promised 1,000 euros plus travel expenses for the burglaries. Because she hoped for stem cell therapy for her sick son, she agreed,” says her lawyer Philipp Wolm, who argues for a lenient sentence. “She is afraid of the people she had contact with at the time.” She was the last link in a powerful criminal organization.
During the trial, the perpetrator appears to have remorse. In court, she tearfully apologized to her victims: ‘I’m sorry. I was in an emergency situation.” A victim describes what happened to her after the burglary: “She is not aware of what she really caused. I can’t forgive her,” the man says. The jury quickly reached a verdict for the woman with a previous conviction: two years and seven months in prison, of which 21 months were suspended for serious commercial theft. The judgment is not final.
Source: Krone
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