Another shockingly violent trial at the Vienna Regional Court. According to the charges, a 23-year-old Guinean allegedly controlled, threatened, abused and raped his Viennese acquaintance, who was more than twice his age. When questioned, the man pleaded “not guilty”.
What happened this spring in an apartment in Vienna-Penzing? During her interrogation, the victim describes the increasing control mania of her 23-year-old acquaintance, whom she met in September 2023 in a chic Viennese club in the city center. On Thursday, the suspect must appear before a jury at the regional court in Vienna. The charges are serious.
Attacks and control mania increased
The first few months, the love affair between the suspect and the 50-year-old seemed to be going well. But then he installed an app that allowed him to read her messages. He also tracked her location. “She wanted this. Because she wanted to prove to me that I could trust her,” claims the 23-year-old, who pleaded “not guilty” during the trial.
Not even the physical attacks that reportedly first occurred in March 2024. In April, the situation escalated: According to the Vienna public prosecutor’s office, the African not only strangled the woman four times until she was almost unconscious, but also broke her nose, bruised her shoulder and ruptured her eardrum.
Particularly cruel: the man is said to have stored a pair of pliers under the bed. He used them to threaten his victim by pulling out her teeth if she did not obey him. According to the Public Prosecution Service, he also used violence to force her to perform sexual acts. On one occasion, the woman was abused by the suspect in a disgusting manner for hours. “She wanted hard sex every day. “She wanted me to scratch her,” he explains, while explaining the woman’s wounds, which are captured in numerous photographs. He claims that her ex-husband and father of her children inflicted other serious injuries on her.
He also has an explanation for the pliers: “She brought them to me to fix the bed when it broke during rough sex.”
“I will destroy you”
The victim remained silent for a long time out of fear. Because the defendant threatened her: “Wherever you are… I will destroy you, you may not even think about me anymore, but I will destroy you.” Only when the woman found a gun on her tormentor did she confide in a friend.
The charges are rape, serious bodily harm and dangerous threats. The jury’s verdict is still pending. “I have rarely read such a gruesome act,” says Wolm, who is demanding 10,000 euros in damages for the victim. The fact that the man also changed perpetrator and victim during the trial left him speechless. Lawyer Philipp Slemr, who represents the suspect, considers the charges to be fictitious: “The witness is actually a wild animal,” he says, and is admonished for this by the judge.
Source: Krone
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