After a 38-year-old priest in Lower Austria was arrested for producing methamphetamine for resale, he has now confessed to police.
Police spokesman Stefan Loidl also announced Tuesday that the second suspect was a 30-year-old Iraqi from Vienna. The man partially confessed. Both individuals were taken into custody.
Although the 38-year-old has been working in the diocese of St. Pölten since 2021, it is unlikely that the possible accomplice will be a person from church circles, as ORF Lower Austria also reported. The case had become known last week and a search was carried out in the affected rectory on the orders of the Krems Public Prosecutor’s Office. Drug precursors and laboratory equipment were discovered and seized.
Priest “fired”
The priest was “immediately relieved of his duties in the diocese of St. Pölten” and “prohibited from carrying out any pastoral activity in the diocese,” according to a statement from the diocese of St. Pölten. The man of God is a priest of the Archdiocese of Warsaw, which in turn promised further action.
Source: Krone
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