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Franz Fuchs was born on 12 December, 1949 in Gralla, Styria, Austria, is an Austrian serial killer (1949 - 2000). Discover Franz Fuchs's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 50 years old?
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12 December, 1949 |
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Gralla, Styria, Austria |
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26 February, 2000 |
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Graz-Karlau Prison, Graz, Austria |
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Franz Fuchs Height, Weight & Measurements
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Franz Fuchs Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Franz Fuchs worth at the age of 50 years old? Franz Fuchs’s income source is mostly from being a successful killer. He is from Austria. We have estimated Franz Fuchs's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Franz Fuchs (12 December 1949 – 26 February 2000) was an Austrian domestic terrorist who killed four people and injured 15, some seriously, using three improvised explosive devices and 24 mail bombs, which he sent in five waves between 1993 and 1997.
Criminal psychologists characterized Fuchs as a highly intelligent but socially inept loner.
He targeted people he considered to be foreigners, or organizations and individuals whom he believed were "friendly to foreigners".
In December 1993 he started his first wave of mailbombs.
Early victims were the priest August Janisch (because of his help for refugees), Silvana Meixner (ORF journalist for minorities), and the Mayor of Vienna, Helmut Zilk, who lost a large part of his left hand in the explosion.
While attempting to disarm an improvised explosive device found at a bilingual school in Carinthia, police officer Theo Kelz lost both his hands on 24 August 1994.
(Kelz subsequently became the first Austrian to receive a double hand transplant, and made an impressive recovery.)
Franz Fuchs claimed responsibility for his attacks in a letter to the foreign minister of Slovenia in September 1994, in the name of the "Salzburger Eidgenossenschaft – Bajuwarische Befreiungsarmee" (Bavarian Liberation Army).
In a number of subsequent letters, he tried to give the impression of a larger organisation with different units.
However, from the second wave of mailbombs in October 1994 not a single one went off.
On 5 February 1995, four Romani were killed in Oberwart with a pipe bomb improvised explosive device which was attached to a sign that read "Roma zurück nach Indien" ("Romani back to India").
It was the worst racial terror attack in post-war Austria, and was Fuchs's first fatal attack.
The bomb was set to explode at chest-height when someone touched the placard with the message.
The next day in nearby Stinatz, mainly populated by Austrians of Croatian descent, a bomb with a pamphlet "Go back to Dalmatia" wounded a garbage worker.
Between June 1995 and December 1995 he sent three more waves of mailbombs.
Wave number three was targeted at TV host Arabella Kiesbauer, Dietrich Szameit (vice-mayor of Lübeck) and a dating agency.
Kiesbauer and Szameit did not open their letters themselves and were not hurt.
Wave number four was targeted at two medics and a refugee aid worker, Maria Loley.
One medic from Syria and Maria Loley were injured; the other mailbomb, targeted at a South Korean medic was discovered and neutralized.
Two mailbombs of wave number five detonated early in mailboxes, the remaining two were discovered and neutralized.
This was the last incident before Fuchs was arrested.
At this stage Fuchs had become highly paranoid.
On 1 October 1997 near his residence in Gralla, he followed two women in a car who he believed were observing him.
When police attempted to question him on what they believed was a routine case of stalking, he produced another improvised explosive device which he had kept in his car, and detonated it in his hands in front of the policemen.
His suicide attempt failed, but he lost both hands, and also injured a nearby police officer.
Fuchs was arrested without giving further resistance and, after a trial which many in Austria felt had fallen short of making all attempts to uncover deep details, was sentenced to life in prison on 10 March 1999.
Through his unruly behavior during the trial, Fuchs had repeatedly forced his removal from court proceedings.
On 26 February 2000, Fuchs was found hanged with the cable of his electric razor in his prison cell at Graz-Karlau Prison.
The prison physician determined his death to be a suicide.
Although the case was officially closed after Fuchs had been sentenced, and although the "Bavarian Liberation Army" was determined to never have existed as a terrorist organization in the meaning of the term, doubts remained whether Fuchs had actually committed his actions without any support or tacit knowledge from sympathizers.
A thorough search of the two rooms in his parents' house where Fuchs had lived revealed more improvised explosive devices but no traces of the equipment which he would have needed to produce and handle the unstable explosives (including mercury fulminate and nitroglycerol) contained in his improvised explosive devices.
Most of Fuchs' "confession letters" exhibited an aptitude at verbal expression for which he was not known.
Some had referred to internal affairs in police procedures that were not accessible to the general public.
Even more doubts remain concerning Fuchs' death.
How exactly a man without hands (Fuchs consistently refused having his advanced prosthetic arms fitted to him) and under almost constant video surveillance could accomplish the manipulations required to convert an electric cable into a noose sufficiently robust for suicide by hanging was never properly explained.
According to a study, Franz Fuchs inspired Pekka Eric-Auvien to kill 8 of his classmates during the Jokela school shooting in Finland in 2007.