Man kills court employee over divorce result
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December 17, 2009, Thursday
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A MAN unhappy with a judge's ruling in his divorce case returned to the Austrian court house yesterday and shot and killed one of its employees, authorities said.
The alleged killer - a 57-year-old Austrian male - was arrested after gunning down a 42-year-old court employee who is the mother of two young children, police said.
No other injuries have been reported at the district courthouse in Hollabrunn, a town about 50 kilometers northwest of Vienna, Austria's capital, said Leopold Etz of the Lower Austrian criminal police force.
Etz could not immediately confirm local media reports that the woman had been shot in the head.
He said the motive of the unidentified attacker was not immediately clear but that he apparently had come to the courthouse for a divorce-related matter.
Wilhelm Tschugguel, president of a court in the town of Korneuburg that oversees the Hollabrunn court, said the alleged killer was unhappy with the outcome of his divorce proceedings.
The man had apparently entered the court in Hollabrunn to find the judge who had handled the case.
In a telephone interview, Tschugguel said the man started screaming when he couldn't find the judge. He shot the victim when she tried to calm him down, Tschugguel said.
The gunman had repeatedly complained about his divorce case, and on Tuesday had called the Justice Ministry to complain about it, the court president said. But "at no point in time were there any indications of a threat," Tschugguel said.
Austrian Justice Minister Claudia Bandion-Ortner said she was deeply shocked by what had happened and expressed her condolences to the family of the victim.
The alleged killer - a 57-year-old Austrian male - was arrested after gunning down a 42-year-old court employee who is the mother of two young children, police said.
No other injuries have been reported at the district courthouse in Hollabrunn, a town about 50 kilometers northwest of Vienna, Austria's capital, said Leopold Etz of the Lower Austrian criminal police force.
Etz could not immediately confirm local media reports that the woman had been shot in the head.
He said the motive of the unidentified attacker was not immediately clear but that he apparently had come to the courthouse for a divorce-related matter.
Wilhelm Tschugguel, president of a court in the town of Korneuburg that oversees the Hollabrunn court, said the alleged killer was unhappy with the outcome of his divorce proceedings.
The man had apparently entered the court in Hollabrunn to find the judge who had handled the case.
In a telephone interview, Tschugguel said the man started screaming when he couldn't find the judge. He shot the victim when she tried to calm him down, Tschugguel said.
The gunman had repeatedly complained about his divorce case, and on Tuesday had called the Justice Ministry to complain about it, the court president said. But "at no point in time were there any indications of a threat," Tschugguel said.
Austrian Justice Minister Claudia Bandion-Ortner said she was deeply shocked by what had happened and expressed her condolences to the family of the victim.
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