After a man was beaten to death in the Austrian capital of Vienna, police have now managed to arrest a Pakistani suspect on Sunday, with police saying the random attack appeared to have been conducted out of “bloodlust.”
The 27-year-old man was found severely beaten with head injuries in Vienna’s tenth district in Grenzackerstrasse in the Favoriten neighborhood. He was transported to the hospital but died shortly afterwards.
Now a 21-year-old Pakistani man has been arrested who police say has already confessed. Police said the man “felt persecuted” and attacked his victim out of “bloodlust.” The victim, a native of Bangladesh, was reportedly in the wrong place at the wrong time, with investigators telling Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung they believe it was a random attack.
Not only has the Pakistani man confessed, but police recovered a video from the suspect’s phone which allegedly showed him beating the victim to death.
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The 21-year-old Pakistani man was already known to police for various crimes, including two violent crimes, which he had been arrested for.
According to the State Criminal Police Office, the suspect was arrested in his apartment on May 19 following an appeal for witnesses.