Overview
- Prosecutors will decide on possible pre-trial detention after the suspect’s initial interrogation in Graz.
- Searches in Austria and Slovenia, including a property south of Maribor, have produced no trace of the 32-year-old so far.
- Two relatives of the suspect, identified as his brother and stepfather, remain in custody in Graz and have been described as uncooperative.
- The suspect was detained earlier in the week near his burning red Golf close to the Spielfeld/Šentilj border crossing.
- Police found the missing woman’s phone in bushes, and some media report blood traces linked to the suspect, a detail not confirmed by authorities.