The manhunt for a suspect in the Leonie murder case ended with a bang on Thursday. Targeting investigators tracked down the fugitive Afghan (allegedly 22 years old) in London. His arrest raises many questions. How did the man get to England despite the international arrest warrant? And above all – who paid for the trip?
He allegedly gave little Leonie drugs at the Danube Canal, drove with his suspected accomplices to a flat in the Donaustadt district and raped the girl there several times. The young girl from Tulln died, her body was simply dumped on a grass verge, the Afghans fled. Three of them were quickly caught by local investigators. The fourth was only caught in London on Thursday.
“Until August 2, no exemptions from the quarantine obligation for the 3G target group and also no exemption from the testing obligation for recovered or vaccinated persons.” This passage on the page of the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs is still valid. Only for law-abiding citizens? It is not yet known whether the Afghan urgently suspected of the crime had to be quarantined. The fact is that he seems to be incredibly well linked. After all, he was tracked down in the Afghan community. And a young asylum seeker will hardly be able to escape abroad without help from the investigators – in the middle of a pandemic.
Do smugglers have their hands in this? Or an NGO? Admittedly, all of this is currently the subject of speculation, which also brings with it some political explosiveness. Not least because Austrians are severely restricted in their freedom to travel because of Corona. And of course, the question of financing will also have to be clarified. For a spontaneous flight to London, several hundred euros often become due. Especially since one has to assume that he will not have simply boarded a cheap plane in the airport of Schwechat. In any case, we can promise one thing: The eXXpress will keep asking these questions until we have answers.
https://exxpress.at/mordfall-leonie-wer-finanzierte-die-flucht-des-afghanen-nach-london/