A 19-year-old fooled Lower Austrian police officers and confessed to six robberies. In court in Wiener Neustadt, she now gave a supernatural explanation: “It started with reading tarot cards…”
On December 12, a 19-year-old marched into a Vienna police station, accompanied by an elderly couple and a renowned criminal defense attorney. None of the officers expected what the young Romanian confessed there: she had committed six robberies with her brother and uncle – including two bank attacks.
25-page confession drawn up
The police are immediately alerted and expect to stop a large crime family. The young woman presents 25 handwritten pages with detailed descriptions of the robberies, which began in December 2018 at the bank in Deniz. During the full inspection, the data is checked. In the meantime, the 19-year-old is questioned in the interrogation room – until it finally comes to light: it is all made up…
Curious responsibility in court
How does a young, innocent person come up with the idea of confessing to serious crimes she could not have committed? She gives a statement to this effect in the regional court in Wiener Neustadt that surprises trial observers. The public prosecutor now accuses her of defamation and giving false testimony. She shares the dock with the couple who accompanied her to the police station: the parents of her boyfriend.
I was afraid the devil would come in the night
He is in prison for beating up and humiliating the 19-year-old’s ex-boyfriend. The young woman then stayed with his family. And now says for the first time in court: “Their goal was to take me into custody so I could see how their son felt. They blamed me.” That’s why they forced the Romanian woman to report it to the police.
“I have to sleep in a pool with snakes”
And how did she come to the attacks? “It started with reading tarot cards. They said, ‘I see it in the water and in the coffee beans, I see it in the cards, you’ve done all that.’ And then she felt a little uncomfortable,” she explained to the judge. “I’m afraid of something like that, I didn’t know it yet. They said that if I didn’t admit it, something bad would happen. The devil comes to me at night and I have to sleep in a pool with snakes.”
So she first wrote down the crimes written on the tarot cards and later confessed to the police.
Who hears about fortune telling for the first time: the co-defendant couple, defended by lawyer Alexander Prenner. The only mistake she made was taking the 19-year-old into her home after her son’s arrest and accompanying her to the inspection in December. She pleads not guilty to, among other things, involvement in multiple defamation. The negotiations will continue in October.
Source: Krone
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