Minimum punishment is already higher
They struck on the stormy July night, tied up the family and fled with the loot to their home countries. Using DNA traces, investigators discovered the names of the main perpetrators, arrested the German-Kazakh in Freiburg (D), the North Macedonian in Zagreb (Croatia) and the “initiator” in Ried. “He sees himself as a victim, but one of the main suspects says that he was the driving force,” says Alois Ebner, spokesman for the Ried public prosecutor’s office, which commissioned reports from the mother and daughter to determine whether they had post-traumatic stress disorder. The minimum sentence is five years anyway because Josef Fill’s metacarpal was broken during the attack. State police chief Andreas Pilsl hopes that a fugitive who is still on the run will be caught so that the case can be closed.
Some questions remain – drug dealer provided “fuel” for brutal attack
