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The crime scene: a church in Vienna (archive image)
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The attack on six friars in Vienna results in a 49-year-old prisoner of many years imprisonment.
The district court of Vienna sentenced the man on Monday to twelve years imprisonment for serious robbery, deprivation of liberty and severe coercion.
The judgment is not final.
After the Christmas holidays in 2018, the accused, who had largely confessed, had broken into a church and the offices of the brothers who run a high school in the north of Vienna.
He brought six religious between 58 and 81 years into his power, robbed them and seriously injured them.
One of them was in mortal danger for a few months.
As a motive, he gave hatred of the church.
A previous conviction made the penalty level more difficult.
The Traunstein district court had already sent the man behind bars for seven years because of a hostage situation with serious robbery and bodily harm.
On the trail of the man in hiding, the investigators had come through a water bottle that he had left behind at the scene.
Investigators then found a DNA trace that could be assigned to him.
kfr / dpa