77-Year-Old Brutally Attacked in Vienna-Penzing: Suspect in Custody

An officer from the criminal investigation team at the Kopernikusgasse police station clearly recognized the alleged necklace robber after a facial recognition by the Vienna State Criminal Office. The investigator had already been investigating the 40-year-old Bulgarian citizen for a necklace theft.

Pensioner Brutally Attacked in Vienna-Penzing

The man is suspected of having followed the 77-year-old pensioner to her apartment on the afternoon of July 21, knocked her down there, and snatched her necklace. The woman was injured in the process. During the investigation, it was revealed that the man had traveled to his Bulgarian homeland in August. In mid-November, he was arrested there with a European arrest warrant and subsequently extradited to Austria. He is in pre-trial detention in Vienna and, according to police spokesman Philipp Haßlinger, is refusing to testify.

(APA/Red)

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