After the violent killing of a 13-year-old girl in Vienna, investigators have apprehended a third man allegedly involved in the crime. “The newspaper Oe24” reported that the 23-year-old man is said to be the roommate of the 18-year-old suspect and, like the two men already arrested (16 and 18), is said to be from Afghanistan.
They are accused of first raping and then killing the girl. The police are currently searching for a fourth suspect with a European arrest warrant. According to “heute.at”, the suspect is a 22-year-old Afghan.
The two arrested are currently being questioned in the presence of an interpreter. The 16-year-old has so far remained silent, the older one denies the accusations. Meanwhile, more and more information about the arrest of the two is coming to light. One of the perpetrators is said to have bragged to an acquaintance about an “escalated sex night”. According to “Oe24”, his description was so detailed and gruesome that he called the police. When he was arrested near a skate park, the 16-year-old suspect was said to have been calmly eating a pizza.
The two suspects were transferred from police custody to a prison on Wednesday. The 18-year-old suspect had already been convicted of drug offences and theft. Therefore, his status as a person eligible for subsidiary protection was revoked, against which, however, he appealed. The 16-year-old was an asylum seeker.
What is clear, however, is that the 13-year-old was drugged before her violent death. According to the police, ecstasy was used to make her compliant.
According to initial investigations, the 13-year-old girl went voluntarily to the flat of the 18-year-old suspect. The details of what happened afterwards are still unclear. Forensic experts determined death by suffocation and many bruises. The girl’s body was discovered on a grass verge in a residential area on Saturday.