The gang rape case is followed by a gruesome discovery in Vienna: a 14-year-old girl was found dead in the apartment of an Afghan in Simmering on Tuesday morning. Drugged and also abused …
The investigation into the serial abuse, including cell phone videos, of twelve-year-old Anna-Sofia by a 17-member multicultural gang in the hotspot district of Favoriten continues at full speed. The next abuse thriller is already shocking: this time even with a death drama! 14-year-old Sandra (name changed by the editors) from Lower Austria is found lifeless in the apartment of an Afghan on Tuesday morning. Crime scene: Vienna’s neighboring district of Simmering.
According to previous findings, the 26-year-old suspect may have lured the girl into the municipal building with drugs. While the schoolgirl probably ultimately died of an overdose, the young man, who arrived with the wave of refugees in 2015, claims to have had “consensual sex” with her. His asylum application was rejected at first instance, but the judiciary granted subsidiary protection following an appeal.
The State Office of Criminal Investigation has now taken over the investigation into the alarming death. The case has frightening parallels to the murder of Leonie. The then 13-year-old schoolgirl was also drugged and left to die leaning against a tree after being abused in a group by three Afghans.
Meanwhile, there will be a political summit on Thursday with Constitutional Minister Edtstadler and Interior Minister Karner on lowering the age of criminal responsibility. Minors under 14 currently receive therapy and social workers instead of a prison sentence. Federal Chancellor Karl Nehammer, himself the father of a daughter the age of Anna-Sofia – all 17 suspected rapists are on the loose – had denounced the “defencelessness of the constitutional state”. And demanded via “Krone”: “We have to talk about punishments.”
The Green coalition partner is, of course, vehemently opposed to “occasion legislation”. Overall, juvenile crime (see chart above) is on the rise.
Drugged to death – Next abuse crime in Vienna: 14-year-old girl dead | krone.at