An Austrian triathlete has survived a kidnapping in which she was first hit by a car, tied up with duct tape and then taken to a remote house where she was held for hours before convincing her abductor to release her.
, Graz police spokesman Fritz Grundnig said. The 33-year-old attacker, whose name wasn't given according to Austrian privacy rules, was arrested Wednesday.
Birli, who has a 14-week-old son, said that she lost consciousness for a while, and when she woke up she was naked and tied to an armchair, Krone reported. Birli said at some point he held her nose and mouth and she thought he wanted to suffocate her but then stopped and forced her into a bathtub with cold water"to drown me."
"All of a sudden the attacker was nice to me," Birli told Krone. He told her that he was a gardener and started talking about his horrible life —"a dead father, a mother addicted to alcohol and girlfriends who betrayed him," Birli said."'Let's pretend it was an accident,' I offered him, 'and you let me go.'""I went right into the house, locked the door and called my partner," Birli said.
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