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Man Hit Wife in the Face in Vienna-Leopoldstadt

Festnahme im 2. Bezirk.
Festnahme im 2. Bezirk. ©APA/HELMUT FOHRINGER (Symbolbild)
In Vienna-Leopoldstadt, the weekend ended with a case of domestic violence. A 45-year-old man is alleged to have repeatedly hit his wife in the face during an argument and threatened to kill her multiple times.

According to a statement released on Monday, the authorities provisionally arrested the suspect. The man was also aggressive towards the intervening officers and attempted to attack them. In addition to a restraining and no-contact order, he was given a provisional weapons ban. The Turkish man was found to have more than 1.8 per mille of alcohol in his system. The woman stated that she was not injured in the incident. The man was charged with suspicion of making dangerous threats, attempted bodily harm, as well as aggressive behavior and causing a public disturbance, and was initially held in police custody. As explained by a spokeswoman for the state police department in response to an APA inquiry, the woman's intention to divorce is believed to be the background to the violence. The 40-year-old is said to have suffered from her husband's jealousy for some time and therefore decided to separate.

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