preložiť Surprising confession. Czech suspected of murdering Slovakian killed another in Vienna in June
A Czech citizen has confessed to the murder of two Slovak citizens at a hotel in Vienna during June and July, local police said on Wednesday. The news portal Novinky.cz reports.
The Czech suspect first confessed to the murder of a Slovak citizen on 24 July in a room of a four-star hotel in Vienna's Alsergrund district. However, he said he felt threatened and only defended himself. He then confessed to another murder in the same hotel on 16 June. The victim was again a citizen of the Slovak Republic.
He was killed with a chair
The body of the Slovak citizen with serious head injuries was found in the hotel room by a colleague on the morning of 24 July. He came looking for him because he had not come to work that morning. The doctor called in pronounced him dead and the police said at the time that the 29-year-old man had died as a result of someone else's fault.
Based on the police investigation, a 33-year-old Czech citizen was a reasonable suspect in the murder. On the basis of an international arrest warrant and in cooperation with the Czech police, he was arrested near his residence the same day. The man was subsequently transferred to Vienna, where investigators began questioning him.
It is highly probable that alcohol played a role in the murder, the Austrian website oe24.at wrote after the incident. The Slovak citizen was married and had a school-age son. He was beaten with a chair.
Supposedly they worked for the mafia
In the June murder case, a witness saw a man fall from a fourth-floor hotel window. Police classified his death as questionable and the case was under investigation. The Czech citizen has now confessed to the crime. He allegedly attacked the victim with his fists and pushed him out of the window as the Slovak citizen fell unconscious, Novinky.cz reports.
All three men were working on a construction site in Vienna and their employer had put them up in the hotel in question. According to Gerhard Winkler of the Vienna criminal police, the perpetrator claims that both victims tried to kill him and he felt threatened. "He also claims that both Slovaks worked for the mafia," Winkler said.