Roland Drexler’s neighbors wonder why police came to the apartment of the wanted gunman from Altenfelden late Monday morning after the crime. However, the shooter has multiple addresses. The 56-year-old was also previously politically active in the area.
“The police only came hours later, when we all already had messages on our mobile phones that something had happened,” said a neighbor in the apartment building on Schulstrasse in Altenfelden, wondering why the police did not immediately knock on the door. door on the second floor. But she was and is not afraid, she has known Roland Drexler for a long time and was his neighbor again about two months ago. Then suddenly he stood in the stairwell.
Had multiple addresses
That after the divorce and the loss of the house, the 56-year-old had three addresses: the apartment in the city, two rooms including a garage (where he stored the deer food) in a village just outside the city and that of his new partner in Pfarrkirchen -, only caused some surprise among acquaintances: “You don’t keep deer food in the city.”
18 cats are said to have disappeared
And when the police searched the homes, they came across a surprise: the wanted man’s two hunting dogs were left behind. The passionate hunter loved her dearly, but his dog breeding methods, which he had previously practiced, were controversial. Also his behavior in the area: A man from Altenfelden says that 18 cats disappeared after the 56-year-old took over hunting in his neighborhood.
“Until now he has not appeared to us in any way. “This means that he neither has a previous conviction nor has it already been reported,” said spokeswoman for the Linz public prosecutor’s office, Ulrike Breiteneder.
In politics in the early 200s
Roland Drexler was also politically active and served in the Altenfelden municipal council as SPÖ faction leader and local party chairman in the early 2000s. According to his successor, doctor Walter Haslmair, he left the city council “about 18 years ago” and has not been politically active since.
“As a hunter and dog owner he already had problems,” says Haslmair. His wife, in turn, is a doctor in Kirchberg/Donau. Her practice is located on the first floor of the municipal office – right above the office of the murdered local mayor Franz Hofer.
Source: Krone
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