The Austro-Danubian Empire
Justice
District of Vienna, Austro-Danubian Capital Territory.In the dead of night an inconspicuous military transport plane marked with the insignia of the Air Force of the Sixth Republic of France landed in Flughafen Wien, the Vienna International Airport. Three French soldiers believed to be a part of the French special forces unit dubbed "Napoleon" shuffled two figures who were blindfolded and handcuffed. The Frenchmen handled the two battered figures with an utmost lack of any respect, more-so pulling them along with them instead of guiding them to their destination. Two Austro-Danubian soldiers of the Royal Guard accompanied by a high ranking officer of the Royal Guard received the two prisoners, gave the Frenchmen their respective solutes, and went on their way. The Frenchmen bordered their plane and set for home.
It was soon announced via an Imperial Address that the greatest criminals in the existence of the Austro-Danubian Empire or the former Danubian Federation have been brought under the custody of the Empire, thanks to agents of New Metropolitan France. It was also announced that their deserved executions were scheduled for later that day. With no right of trial or any rights in the name of the law for that matter, the two were to be butchered like pigs after some evaluation.
The two worked with Albert Nowakowsky in the assassination of the late Empress Nicole I, Honorary Emperor Luca, the princesses Janina and Lena, and the prince Alexander. Their names are Adrian Lis, and Patryk Kowalski, like Nowakowsky they are of Polish origin. The Austro-Danubian investigative team took simple DNA tests of the two individuals and simply matched them to previously gathered records on the Worker's Front of Calindelo during the Calin Civil War. Perfect matches were found for the both of them as they were both members of the WFC at some point of the war effort. Although the team was never able to find on the ground evidence that the WFC staged the assassination, the fact that the killers were all Polish born and had ties to the WFC prove to be suspicious, perhaps validating the popular theory that the WFC conducted the attacks against the House of Habsburg-Lorraine in an attempt to bring it into war with the German Union. All of the evaluations made by the Austro-Danubian investigative team were released to the public soon after.
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Later in the day, the two despised individuals were set on a quickly built stage in Rathausplatz, the city square of Vienna. The scene was broadcasted on national television throughout the nation, and international news teams such as TeleSur were permitted to record the events that were about to take place. The largest crowd in the history of the region formed in and around Rathausplatz to watch these historic events in person. Austro-Danubian Royal Guardsmen secured the stage and conducted operations of crowd control along with the Vienna Police Department (VPD).
The killers were set on their knees with their hands handcuffed behind their backs, and next to them stood the Emperor of the Austro-Danubian Empire himself, Martin von Habsburg-Lorraine. The Emperor paced the stage behind the murderers, brandishing a magnum revolver. He raised his right hand and showed his pistol to the crowd, and in a customary sign of respect, the crowd silenced itself. With a calm and fluent tone he gave a brief statement.
The two wretched things presented to you and I today are anything but human. They are directly responsible for the massacre of my sister and her family, children who had futures lined up in front of them. Today I will bring what little justice can be served in the name of the Empire, and although they should be doused in gasoline and burnt into crow-feed, I'll end their miserable existences myself. I do not enjoy killing, but Nicole and I's father always told us that the man who passes the sentence should carry out the justice himself.
The Emperor then aimed his pistol to heart of Lis, and pulled the trigger. He fell to the ground with a thud. Cheering seemed to be fluent with the blood oozing out of the twitching body's wound. He slowly walked in front of Kowalski and inflicted the same justice.
Upon the execution of the killers, the crowd grew silent. The silence carried out until a group of individuals began reciting the ancient phrase "Der Hirsch tanzt, egal wie der Wald."
The stag prances, no matter the forest. Soon enough the entirety of the crowd was hysterically chanting the phrase in a deafening cry.
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Although concrete evidence couldn't tie the WFC to the massacre of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine as previously mentioned, the sheer fact that all the perpetrators were of Polish decent and had ties to the WFC proved to be reason enough for the Austro-Danubian government to act accordingly.
It is reported that after the bodies of Lis and Kowalski were taken from the scene of the execution, they were taken straight to the morgue to have some final touches worked up on them. Their heads were removed by surgeons and were placed in boxes, they were then immediately shipped to Prague on an Austro-Danubian transport plane.
The bloody heads of the killers were to be sent to the president and government of the so called "Eastern European States of Poland" to serve a reminder to the Calin peoples that justice was ultimately served. A letter was sent with the two heads, stating the words from the execution, "Der Hirsch tanzt, egal wie der Wald."
The Austro-Danubian government hasn't made any announcements clarifying if this is a threat to the Polish government or not, but the fact that no statement saying it wasn't seems to point towards the former.