Oleg M. is described by his acquaintances as a “quiet person”. Despite the gun he supposedly always had with him and with which he ultimately stabbed him. Johann Huber is an eyewitness to the atrocity. The winemaker doesn’t know how to process what happened…
It has been almost 24 hours since Barbara R. (65) was murdered with a knife in Zistersdorf in the Gänserndorf district (Lower Austria). Oleg M. is the name of the suspect. However, there is no longer any question of a confession: the man – he is from Slovakia – is said to have killed himself in a wine cellar on Saturday morning.
Girlfriend murdered in front of her own eyes
But what motivated the 59-year-old to commit such a heinous act? He is described by those around him as very calm. “Oleg has never hurt anyone,” says eyewitness and owner of the house where the suspect hid before his death, Johann Huber. The winemaker had to see the crime with his own eyes. Barbara was his girlfriend; they had eaten together before.
“Barbara called me. I said I had to come over for dinner. Oleg didn’t want to come with me. But she wanted to talk to him, so we drove to him,” Huber recalled in an interview with the “Krone”. It is not known what the debate was ultimately about. Whatever the case, the argument escalated. “Oleg ran, Barbara followed – and then Oleg stabbed her in the body.”
‘He wanted to arrange this without authorities’
He doesn’t know how the winemaker will spread what happened. “You have to be able to handle something like that,” said the Slovakian’s ex-boss, almost in tears.
Martin König is also completely baffled. He is a good friend of the winegrower and was probably the last person to speak to the murder suspect. “He called me and said he had done something bad. He asked me to grab him and help him. To take him away or bury Barbara.” But König did not heed this request, he waited for the police and watched as the rescue team tended to the body. “He asked me not to call the police. He wanted to arrange this without authorities,” says König.
König also describes Oleg M. as a quiet person. “But as we all know, still waters run deep,” he adds. The 59-year-old is said to have always had a weapon with him. “Usually in my fanny pack. That was also known in the city.”
Hidden in the basement for hours
Cobra, employees of the national police headquarters and explosives experts and employees of the Red Cross had been on duty since Friday afternoon. After the 65-year-old was stabbed, Oleg M. barricaded himself for hours in a building with a tunnel-like basement in Gösting’s cadastral community of Zistersdorf. During the first intervention, the man allegedly detonated an explosive in the morning hours, seriously injuring an officer.
Around noon the news came: the Slovak allegedly blew himself up in the cellar.
Probably aggressive and mentally unstable
The area surrounding the press house, including the wine cellar in which the murder suspect is hiding, was already cordoned off on a large scale on Friday evening. Heavily armed police units have secured the area. Residents had to leave their homes. The whole place is in shock. But Oleg M. takes the background of the crime to his grave – but the dangerous criminal was probably aggressive and mentally unstable for years. Friends say, “His favorite saying was, ‘My father was cursed, and I am cursed too.'”
Source: Krone
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