He killed the love of his life, the mother of his three children. Adil S. (name altered), a Syrian who had moved to Vienna to join his family at Brunnenmarkt in the Ottakring district only three weeks ago. The supposed happy family life did not last long.
His partner quickly revealed to him: “I just don’t love you any more”. This open rejection of his attractive wife was too much for the 35-year-old – and meant the death sentence for her!
What happened afterwards was described by the 35-year-old in the intensive care unit of the Vienna General Hospital to his defence lawyer and the murder investigators from the Vienna police department during the first interrogation. Without any emotion, he told them how he had executed the 28-year-old woman with 30 stabs of a knife. His only question was: “Is she really dead?” He made it perfectly clear why he had killed her: “I had to restore my honour!
Adil S. himself is in Vienna General Hospital because he jumped out of the window on the 3rd floor of the flat where the crime took place in order to take his own life. “He is currently paraplegic,” says his defence lawyer Manfred Arbacher-Stöger. But there is a chance of recovery in the coming months. The cost of his hospital bed (without treatments): 9000 euros per day. The suspected murderer has been in the hospital bed for a fortnight, he will be treated for another two weeks. That adds up to 252,000 euros!
A second suicide attempt by the Syrian shows that his life is apparently worth as little to him as that of the mother of his children: After he woke up from his coma, he bit through the intubation tube for his ventilation – in vain.
„Auch wirklich tot?“ – Geständnis: Ehrenmord an dreifacher Mutter in Wien | krone.at