Attacks on seniors in Altenstadt and Schwabbruck: It was the same perpetrator
Created: 01/20/2022, 20:00
By: Rasso Schorer
Is there a risk of recurrence?
The police are asking for your attention.
© Symbolic photo: Julia Boecken
Altenstadt/Schwabbruck – Two cases in which senior citizens were victims of attacks in their own homes occurred in Altenstadt and Schwabbruck respectively.
Now the police headquarters in Upper Bavaria South has announced that the same perpetrator is behind both acts.
On Monday evening, November 29, the stranger rang the doorbell of a couple on Erzgebirgsstraße in Altenstadt at around 8:30 p.m., carrying a cardboard box and a bread knife. When the 66-year-old resident wanted to close the door again immediately, the attacker pushed against it and the woman fell. There was a scuffle between her husband, who was in a wheelchair, and the intruder, and the 74-year-old also fell and sustained a head laceration. The silent attacker made no demands. When the woman managed to escape through the adjoining garage, the stranger made off.
Early on Monday morning, December 27, between 3:30 a.m. and 4 a.m., he broke into the house of an 85-year-old Schwabbrucker on Raiffeisenstrasse through a ground-floor window, tied him up and then ransacked the living quarters. The perpetrator fled with his loot, a three-digit amount of cash and pieces of jewellery. Neighbors became aware of the calls for help and alerted the police.
The senior only described the attacker vaguely: He wore a black balaclava, black clothes and black gloves.
A little more details are available from the incident in Altenstadt, the couple described the perpetrator as around 20 to 30 years old.
He is about 1.75 meters tall, has a Mediterranean complexion, is slim and athletic.
He wore black trousers and a black sweater or a black jacket with a hood and a black FFP2 mask.
He spoke the few words he spoke in High German without an accent.
risk of recurrence
The case is considered "very important", said police headquarters spokesman Stefan Sunday on Wednesday last week when asked by the district messenger.
Now the police are linking this act to that in Altenstadt.
The police are asking for information and also very up-to-date attention with regard to possible spying: A "further occurrence of the perpetrator" cannot be ruled out.