Today, the regional court is continuing the process of a serious traffic accident in 2019. At the time, the accused raced into oncoming traffic on alcohol and cocaine. He is accused of three counts of attempted murder.

SALZBURG. In March 2019, a Turkish citizen born in Salzburg, under the influence of alcohol and drugs, steered his Porsche Cayenne S into oncoming traffic on the B156 in Pabing. Three other people were injured, some seriously. After the first hearing in July, the trial at the Salzburg Regional Court will begin today. The prosecution alleges suicidal intent. He is charged with the attempted murder of three people. He is said to have announced his act shortly beforehand in a telephone call to his father. His defense pleads for grossly negligent grievous bodily harm. After the first hearing in July, the trial at the Salzburg Regional Court will begin today.

Accident in Pabing

On March 11, 2019, the accused 30-year-old was on the Lamprechtshausener Bundesstraße (B156) in Pabing near Nußdorf. There he suddenly steered his Porsche Cayenne S into oncoming traffic. In the crash, his car collided with two other vehicles. In the first car, a couple looks at each other. One of the two people was seriously injured. The other accident victim experiences a concussion. The woman driving the following car suffers a ruptured spleen. The accused is said to have had 1.3 per thousand alcohol in the blood. Cocaine was also detected.

The accusation

After the accident, the accused appears under. He was only located and arrested three years later in March 2022 in Georgia using a European arrest warrant. In April he was then transferred to Austria. The process has been going on since July. The defendant IS accused of driving his vehicle into oncoming traffic with suicidal intent. As prosecutor Roland Finster emphasized at the trial in July, the accused did not consciously try to fight other road users, but he considered and accepted the possibility of their death. The 30-year-old Turk, who was born in Salzburg, is therefore charged with three counts of attempted murder. His defense attorney Kurt Jelinek pleads grossly negligent serious bodily harm. The accused is also charged with receiving stolen goods and fraud. He is said to have acted as if he owned a cell phone that someone else had stolen.

Stressed by phone call

The accused is heavily incriminated above all by a telephone call made shortly before the accident. In a heated argument with his father, he is said to have said: “So, I’m driving in the opposite lane now.” His mother and his ex-girlfriend want to have overheard the conversation. Another aggravating circumstance is that he already has five criminal records.

The judgment

If convicted of triple attempted murder, the defendant faces a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison. it can be decided that it was a case of grossly negligent serious bodily harm for a maximum of two to three years.

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