The 56-year-old man, suspected of having killed his three children in a flat in Zagreb on 25 September, was transferred on Monday afternoon from hospital to the Zagreb-based Vrapce psychiatric hospital.

He was admitted On Saturday to the hospital in Vinogradska Street after he was found in a stupefied state by the police. The man reportedly attempted suicide after he suffocated his three underage children. The police found the man after receiving information that he had announced that he would commit suicide announced on social networks.

At the time of the crime, the children’s mother was not in Zagreb and the children were spending the weekend with the father, Herald Kopitz, an Austrian national.