After an attempted rape of a 55-year-old woman in Poysdorf (Mistelbach district), a decision by the Korneuburg Regional Court has caused a stir: Only a few hours after the crime, the judge released the 22-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, who was strongly suspected of the crime, due to lack of evidence. For the police and the municipality of Poysdorf this was an incomprehensible decision, because a decisive result of the investigation – the comparison of DNA traces – was not yet available at that time. The mayor of Poysdorf, Thomas Griessl ( Austrian People’s Party, ÖVP), has now written an angry letter to Minister of Justice Alma Zadic ( Greens). According to Griessl, this decision had led to a change of mood among the residents. At the same time, Karl Wilfing (ÖVP), President of the Poysdorf State Parliament, initiated a parliamentary question on the matter via Andreas Minnich (ÖVP), member of the National Council. According to the investigation, the suspected perpetrator attacked the woman last Tuesday and tried to rip her clothes off her body. The assailant was holding a six-inch knife in his hand. The victim resisted and suffered several cuts. In addition, the woman bit her tormentor in the genital area. The torturer let go of her and fled. A short time later the young man was arrested in the course of the search. But he denied any involvement. The alleged weapon, the knife, was found and seized.The 22-year-old had already been investigated because he allegedly harassed a 30-year-old woman near the crime scene days before. In this case, however, witnesses intervened, and according to the police, no punishable act was committed.Just one day after his arrest, the suspect left the court as a free man. The arresting judge saw in the victim’s statements too many contradictions to the state of investigation. This was also the case with the information given by the spokesman for the Korneuburg public prosecutor’s office, Friedrich Köhl: “The description of the perpetrator does not match the 22-year-old. For this reason he was released and the investigation continues.The suspect is 163 centimetres tall, but the victim has described him as much taller. At the time of arrest, the colour of his jacket did not match that of the description. In addition, there was no injury from the alleged bite. The police have a different view of the matter: the woman was scared to death and could therefore have been mistaken in her perception of the size and colour of the jacket, according to investigators. It is also obvious that the perpetrator could have changed his clothes while fleeing. The court’s argument that the victim had indicated the direction of escape to the east and the suspect was arrested in the opposite direction caused a stir. “It is not surprising that someone changes his direction while fleeing,” police sources say.The 22-year-old Afghan is believed to have gone into hiding immediately after his release. He was no longer to be found in the asylum centre by the investigators of the state criminal investigation department.

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