Son (28) in court – Parents cast with gasoline: “Was bad on her”

There was really a malignant awakening for the parents of a 28-year-old in the Waldviertel. At the beginning of the year, her son stormed into her bedroom around midnight, poured her gas and tried to light her. When the couple screamed out of sleep, worse things could be prevented.

The son, who lived with his parents until the time of the crime, has been suffering from paranoid schizophrenia for years. But in 2024 the accused took the medicine independent because he was convinced that he was “not sick”. His condition quickly deteriorated, outbreaks of anger, wild screams and threats were increasingly common. During the day he slept, he patroled the house at night. His parents became more and more an enemy. The 28-year-old even refuses to eat his mother for days because he believes it is poisoned.

In the court in Krems he described the crime scene in every detail. “Finally the truth tells me,” the accused storms at the end of January with a benzinkanister from the workshop and lighter in hand in his parents’ bedroom. The truth he means is still unclear. When asked why, he replies: “I was a bit angry with my parents. I wanted to put pressure on the lighter,” said the accused in the process in Krems.

Judgment is already definitive
In the Klauter, the father manages to get lighter in it. He suffered a cut. His preference -Woman’s wife hurried to his help. Then they warned the police. “Nothing happens to the others when they light me, now nothing happens to me,” he should have “fantasized” “according to the mother. The office of the public prosecutor of Krems argued for attempted murder, because of his illness, an instruction in the forensic-therapeutic center of the 28-year-old was decided. The judgment is definitive.