Three seriously injured victims after a wild shooting on October 7, 2023 on the street in Vienna, Floridsdorf. A father and three of his sons have to answer for attempted murder in Vienna. Was it a self-defense situation in a dispute with a once-friendly family, as the defendant’s lawyers certainly know?
You can senselessly destroy the lives of others, but also your own life. The trial at the Vienna Regional Court on Friday is an example of this: the accused father (54) was a construction contractor and successfully ran his business in the federal capital for thirty years. Now he sits with his head bowed in the dock in the grand jury courtroom. With three of his four sons (22, 25, 29) who were also on the right track: for example, the youngest son had recently completed a HTL, the other two were working in technical professions. Now the four innocent men are each charged with attempted murder by the Viennese public prosecutor’s office.
The background was a family feud
It is about the act that kept the federal capital in suspense on the evening of October 7, 2023. A wild shooting on the street in Floridsdorf put the population in fear.
It later became known that it was a family feud that escalated: the first accused Austrian, from North Macedonia, attended an MMA fight with his sons that evening in Vienna’s Stadthalle. “During the course of the event, a fight broke out between the youngest son and the son of the opposing party’s family,” the prosecutor opened the trial. The families knew each other. “It was about a girl,” says lawyer Rudolf Mayer, who represents two of the suspects. The aggression came from the other family’s son, Mayer said. This is evident from a video from the town hall.
The debate ended in disaster
The fathers agreed to meet later. Because the opponent’s father had an ankle bracelet and had to be home at 8 p.m., they agreed to meet in the Floridusgasse in Floridsdorf. The four defendants and the four opponents met in the middle of the street. “The attempt to speak out quickly turned into a fight,” the prosecutor said. Once again, a member of the victim’s family may have been the first to strike. The third defendant then pulled a knife and stabbed the attacking opponent in the upper arm and another in the buttocks.
During the scuffle, his 22-year-old brother pulled out a Zastava pistol, fired a warning shot into the ground and hit another member of the other family with a second shot in the back. Finally, the builder also allegedly pulled out a gun. Prosecutors said he shot him through his left thigh and grazed his arm with a second shot. “He wanted to protect his youngest son,” Mayer is convinced. There was no intent to murder. His colleague Manfred Arbacher-Stöger also sees it this way: “It was a discussion that degenerated.” The suspects have pleaded ‘not guilty’ to attempted murder.
The victims were left lying in pools of blood
“I was shooting because I wanted to help my brother, who was in a headlock by one of the others,” said the fourth defendant, who is himself a martial artist. “What do you mean, you’ve been shooting around?” asks judge Christoph Bauer. “I went for my feet. I didn’t want to hit any vital organs.”
Victim advocate Zaid Rauf cites the serious injuries suffered by those who were shot: “The victims lay on the street in a pool of their own blood. Three of them almost died.”
This article is continuously updated.
Source: Krone
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