2023-10-21 15:46:28
A woman was shot dead on Saturday in Strasshof an der Nordbahn (Gänserndorf district). The suspected shooter then turned himself in to the police and was arrested, a spokeswoman for the Lower Austria State Police Directorate told APA in the afternoon. The crime was committed shortly after 1:30 p.m. The woman was a 33-year-old Austrian citizen and the perpetrator was her ex-partner.
The woman was shot with a handgun in front of her house and died a short time later on the spot, as the spokeswoman explained. The suspect probably confessed to the crime and was arrested without resistance by officers from the Deutsch Wagram police station. The 35-year-old is a Swedish citizen and the victim’s former partner. He was registered at a different residential address than the woman. The Lower Austria State Criminal Police Office took over the further investigation. No information was yet available on the motive for the crime. But there may have been witnesses to the crime.
The crime scene was located directly on the main street in Strasshof, shortly after entering the town near single-family homes. The police then cordoned off the area extensively. The investigators got an idea of the situation over the course of the afternoon. The crime scene work and the interviews with the perpetrator and the witnesses were still ongoing in the early evening.
(SERVICE – In Austria, women who experience violence can find help and information at the women’s helpline at: 0800-222-555, www.frauenhelpline.at; at the Association of Autonomous Austrian Women’s Shelters (AÖF). www.aoef.at; the Vienna Intervention Center against Violence in the Family/Violence Protection Center Vienna: www.interventionsstelle-wien.at and the 24-hour women’s emergency number of the city of Vienna: 01-71719 as well as the women’s shelter emergency number on 057722 and the Austrian violence protection centers: 0800/700-217; Police emergency number: 133)
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