Burgstaller suffers a fractured skull base
Ex-Bundesliga striker beaten: perpetrator apparently caught
December 18, 2024 – 8:35 a.mReading time: 1 min.
For Guido Burgstaller, a party evening turned into a nightmare. The striker suffered a serious injury after an attack. Now the investigators celebrated a success.
The police have apparently caught a suspect in the Guido Burgstaller case. As the Austrian newspaper “Krone” reports, a 23-year-old man is said to have already confessed. Pre-trial detention has already been ordered due to the risk of committing the crime and the risk of concealment.
Burgstaller was seriously injured in the head in an attack. The striker from the Austrian first division club SK Rapid Wien was attacked in downtown Vienna at the weekend and fell due to a “brutal blow”. As a result, the 35-year-old former striker from Schalke 04, St. Pauli and 1. FC Nürnberg suffered, among other things, a fracture to the base of his skull. He will be out for several months.
FC Schalke 04, where Burgstaller played from 2017 to 2020, expressed its regret on Platform X and wrote: “What a despicable act.”