Nine fates

Crime scenes in pictures: What remains after the crime

On this street in Kindberg, Styria, a bomb exploded in a toy dealer's car on October 30, 2000.

(Bild: Nina Strasser)

When the police barriers have been removed, the blood washed away and the memorial candles burned down, crime scenes lose their horror. And life goes on, almost as if nothing bad had happened. But it is. Nine photos, nine stories.

When 62-year-old toy dealer Adolf Fuchs gets into his black Citroën one morning, he has no idea that he only has a few minutes to live. Shortly before he leaves his hometown of Kindberg, on the outskirts of the town and just 30 meters from a police station, his car explodes. Car parts fly through the air. Adolf Fuchs is killed instantly.

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The initial assumption that it was an accident because the victim may have been transporting pyrotechnics quickly turns out to be wrong. The explosives came from a Russian surface-to-air missile. In one fell swoop, the tranquil village in Styria has become the scene of a mafia-like crime.