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A woman was lured into the basement of her apartment in South Tyrol and brutally attacked.
The search for the perpetrator led the police to Bavaria.
Munich - After the attempted murder of a 61-year-old woman in South Tyrol, the Bavarian police arrested a suspect on Monday using a European arrest warrant.
As the public prosecutor announced, the person who was caught is suspected of having brutally attacked a South Tyrolean woman in her apartment and attacked her with a knife.
The victim had to be treated in intensive care but survived the attack.
61-year-old is lured into the basement of her South Tyrolean apartment and attacked with a knife
In February, 61-year-old Waltraud K. was lured into the basement by a supposed power outage, where the attacker attacked her with a knife.
A neighbor found the woman a short time later in a pool of blood in the basement.
As the news portal
Südtirol News
reports, the woman suffered serious injuries to her head and neck.
She was immediately taken to the intensive care unit of the Bolzano hospital, where she underwent several surgical procedures.
She was able to leave the intensive care unit after about a week.
A man is wearing handcuffs.
(Symbolic photo) © Stefan Sauer/dpa/Illustration
According to information from the news portal, the suspect is the victim's 37-year-old former son-in-law, who lived in Germany.
He is said to have been in Bolzano in the days before the attempted murder and apparently returned to Germany after the crime.
Police arrest suspect after brutal knife attack: Is it the victim's son-in-law?
The public prosecutor's office did not disclose where exactly the police arrested the man.
However, since emergency services from Munich and Passau were involved in the arrest, it is obvious that he resides in Bavaria.
The public prosecutor's office did not confirm that the person arrested was actually the son-in-law.
As the
Neue Südtiroler daily newspaper
reports, the suspect is not 37, but 35 years old.
However, both newspapers unanimously report, citing internal sources, that investigators assume a relationship was committed.
According to the current state of the investigation, the suspect has not gotten over the separation from his ex-wife, with whom he has two children, last fall.
The couple had lived together in Germany, but after the separation the woman moved to South Tyrol and lived with her parents.
The suspect is said to have put his former partner under so much pressure that she had to seek help from a contact point for women who experience violence (GEA).
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