Woman shot on the open street, big search for the perpetrator is running – Diepresse.com

In the Salzburg Pinzgau, a man shot his former partner in the night of Saturday. The suspect met the woman in Maria Alm in a parking lot. He is said to have shot the 34-year-old German and killed them. Then he fled in an unknown direction. The police initiated a large -scale search that was still running on Saturday afternoon.

The crime occurred around 0.40 a.m. in a parking lot in the town center of Maria Alm. The 32-year-old Hungarian, who lives in Pinzgau, met there for a discussion with the victim. The bloody deed occurred. Residents of the adjacent houses heard the incident and alerted the police. When the executive arrived, the perpetrator had already disappeared. He most likely came to a meeting by his car, whether he fled it and still traveled with it, you don’t know, said the spokesman.

SPÖ Minister Holzleitner: « Do women have to protect better »

The police have not yet been able to provide more information on a possible motif and the exact crime scene. This is « the subject of ongoing investigations by the State Criminal Police Office, » it said. Media reports that a friend of the victim came to the meeting to protect, but who was in the background and had become a witness to the crime, the police could not confirm.

Women’s Minister Eva-Maria Holzleitner (SPÖ) in a reaction to the bloody deed said that acts of violence against women were never private. « They all approach us and ask us as a society, as a state, as a politics. We have to protect women better, make help accessible faster, consistently pursue perpetrators and strengthen prevention – these are the core elements of the national action plan, which we will develop and implement together in the next few months. » (APA)