The provisional autopsy result was announced by the Lower Austria state police department. According to the autopsy, suffocation is believed to be the cause of death.
A large-scale search for the suspect in the Moosbrunn area (Bruck ad Leitha district) had started on Thursday afternoon. The 44-year-old’s car was discovered there on Wednesday evening in a windbreak belt.
Evidence of violent crime confirmed
According to police spokesman Johann Baumschlager, 80 officers from local offices, the operational unit and the rapid intervention group were called up. Eight service dogs and two drones were also involved in the action. The search had turned out to be difficult, reported Baumschlager in the afternoon. The extensive area is densely overgrown.
The search ended around 5:00 p.m. on Thursday. After that, according to Baumschlager, a consultation was held with the State Criminal Police Office on how the search measures should continue.
According to the police, the 43-year-old woman was found by relatives in a family home on Wednesday afternoon. She must have been strangled or strangled. The evidence of a violent crime had been confirmed, police spokesman Raimund Schwaigerlehner announced Thursday morning on request. It is being investigated on suspicion of murder.
In the evening, the preliminary results of the autopsy were finally available. According to Schwaigerlehner, the woman was found to have blunt trauma in the chest, head and neck area.
In general, it cannot be ruled out that the 44-year-old may have his service weapon with him, it said. However, there is no evidence of a risk to other people, said Schwaigerlehner.
“Austria is the only country in the EU where there are more female than male murder victims. What still has to happen for the government to finally act and make protection against violence a top priority?”Klaudia Frieben, chairwoman of the Austrian Women’s Association
The State Criminal Police Office of Lower Austria is investigating. The task force Cobra and the emergency unit were also involved in the search for the police officer working in Vienna.
“Austria is the only country in the EU in which there are more female than male murder victims. What still has to happen for the government to finally act and make protection against violence its top priority?”, Responded Klaudia Frieben, chairwoman of the Austrian Women’s Association a broadcast.
For years women and violence protection organizations have been demanding the implementation of the Istanbul Convention, which Austria has already signed, 228 million for protection against violence and 3,000 additional jobs in violence prevention. “Words of regret do not get us any further,” said Frieben.
“We finally have to do more with the protection of women – faster and more comprehensively!”NEOS women’s spokeswoman Henrike Brandstötter
SPÖ women’s chairwoman Eva-Maria Holzleitner was concerned about the 22nd femicide in Austria this year. Almost every month two women are murdered by their partners or ex-partners. “We must not go back to business as usual. We urgently need sustainable measures to end this spiral of violence,” emphasized Holzleitner.
“In addition, we SPÖ women demand the daily publication of the violence figures in the Austrian media, we have to make the violent crimes against women visible,” continued Holzleitner.
Specifically, entry and approach bans should be announced similar to the vaccination statistics or new infections.
“We finally have to do more with the protection of women – faster and more comprehensively! Anyone who does not recognize the universal problem of male violence, cannot clearly identify it, will not take the right measures,” said NEOS women’s spokeswoman Henrike Brandstötter in a broadcast. The violence protection sector has been chronically underfunded to this day, and the implementation of specific violence protection measures is too slow and intransparent.
In a list of the Autonomous Austrian Women’s Shelters (which corresponds to a count by the APA), excluding the most recent case, 21 women were allegedly killed this year by their (ex) partners or male persons close to the victims. This includes a murder / suicide in which a suicide note suggests a mutual decision, another murder and suicide of an elderly couple, a death in which the suspect was released because a crime was not clearly proven at the moment, and the death of a 13th person -Year-old girl in Vienna after being given drugs and rape.
Violence against women: help and support
Women who experience violence can find help and information free of charge and around the clock at the women’s helpline at: 0800/222555, www.frauenhelpline.at; at the Association of Autonomous Austrian Women’s Shelters at www.aoef.at and the Vienna Intervention Center against Violence in the Family: www.interventionsstelle-wien.at. Those affected by acts of violence and crimes can contact the victim protection organization Weißer Ring on Tel .: 0800 / 112-112, www.opfernotruf.at; If there is a threat of acute violence, call the police emergency number immediately on 133 or 112. The deaf and hearing impaired can call for help via SMS on 0800/133 133.
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