Police officers are at the scene of the accident.
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After the death of six-year-old Leon around six months ago, the father (38) is suddenly the focus of the investigation. The police and prosecutors now assume that the drowned six-year-old’s father faked the robbery last year and was responsible for his son’s death himself.
Update, 10:23 a.m. – Father in custody
The Father of the six-year-old Leon from Tyrol has to be in custody. “Several indications have meanwhile added to a picture that urgent suspicion confirmed“Said a spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office in Innsbruck. The 38-year-old father does not confess and sticks to his portrayal. He must now remain in custody for a further 14 days. The 38-year-old stands suspected of being responsible for the death of his mentally handicapped son to be. The public prosecutor’s office in Innsbruck temporarily arrested the man on Monday.
He had testified to the police that in August 2022, while walking with his son in St. Johann, he had been attacked and knocked unconscious. When he regained consciousness, his son was gone. The little Leon was drowned shortly afterwards on a sandbank in the Kitzbüheler Ache found. Investigators are now assuming that the robbery never took place. Instead, the father is the focus of the police.
preliminary report
It is a turning point that has it all: The Father (38) of the six-year-old Leon, who drowned in the Kitzbüheler Ache in August 2022, was arrested on Monday morning (February 27).. According to the Tyrol State Criminal Police Office and the Innsbruck Public Prosecutor’s Office, there are now doubts about the previous official version. “During the course of the investigation, more and more clues arise, which indicate that it did not happen as the father claims. Specifically: We have investigation results that indicate that the Faked robbery and the father himself responsible for the death of his son is. We are currently going from this urgent suspicion out,” says Hansjörg Mayr, spokesman for the Innsbruck public prosecutor’s office, when asked by “Krone”.
Did Leon’s father fake robbery?
When the father was questioned on Tuesday, he was silent. He only denied the suspicion and reinforced his previous representation. This is also confirmed by Hubert Stanglechner, one of his defense attorneys, who again emphasizes that the available evidence is not sustainable. His client was shocked and deeply dismayed that the suspicion was now being directed against him.
A Application for detention was made by the Innsbruck public prosecutor already made, a decision will be made on Thursday at 9 a.m. “The investigation is not over. If further evidence emerges, many things may change again. But at the moment there is a suspicion, albeit an urgent one,” Mayr puts it in a nutshell, who, on the other hand, does not want to comment on the evidence.
Boy (6) drowns in the Kitzbüheler Ache, father reports about the attack
The case made headlines for weeks last year. A feverish search was carried out for the suspected robber; but there was apparently never a concrete, hot lead. So far, in any case, one had assumed a diametrically opposite fact: the father is said to have walked with his boy in a pram on August 28, a Sunday, at 4 a.m. on the promenade in the market town in the Kitzbühel district next to the Ache. The fact that the man was out with the boy at this time was a fact “normal behavior” and nothing unusual had been said by the State Criminal Police Office. The man stated that he often done to calm his mentally handicapped child.
Suddenly, according to his descriptions, the alleged perpetrator approached the father from behind in the area of the main school bridge and hit him targeted and powerful hit with a bottle on the back of the head have transferred. The local remained unconscious. Cell phone and wallet were eventually found in the immediate vicinity of the crime scene.
After all, he should Six-year-old climbed out of the pram on her own and fell into the river be so the original version. The child was aborted and finally found dead about 600 meters downstream been. Ultimately, the father was found unconscious by a passer-by. The man later recalled seeing an unidentified man an hour before the attack. The parents were looking for possible witnesses. The two offered a reward of 30,000 euros for crucial information.
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