According to Austrian police Tijan kept a network of women across Austria from the western state of Vorarleberg to the capital Vienna. ‘He would also fascinate them with fanciful stories about his homeland in Africa and how he had fled horrific wars leaving his family behind – and later he would ask for financial assistance for them.’
Tijan has also been accused of benefits fraud, using his women, children and fake names and photos of friends who were also black to claim thousands from the Austrian social services. Vienna police spokesman Thomas Keiblinger said Tijan: ‘went under various names ( Sonko Tijan, Bojang Tijan and Crang Junior} and we have released his picture at some of his names in the hope that we can contact other victims.
Bubble bust after he met Sonja Maier,28, who believed she had found love at first sight when she was swept off her feet by Tijan after meeting him in a bar and married a month later against the advice from the family members.
According to source:After a year of happy marriage she was pregnant and while browsing on Facebook she came across somebody with the same surname and a strikingly similar-looking husband.Then realised this woman’s husband was not only similar looking, but actually identical , at the same surname as her own spouse convinced her something was wrong.
‘I thought that either he had a twin I never knew about or he was cheating on me,’ she said.
Ms Maier got in touch with the woman to compare notes. Soon they realised that when he was with one of them, he was never with the other, and together they made a complaint to police after he vanished when they confronted him.
That complaint led to the unravelling of a web of intrigue that has so far revealed 16 different women all of whom believed they were in an exclusive relationship with Tijan, including three who were married to him.
The youngest of his women was 22, and the oldest 44; there is also another woman he is married to in his home country, where he also has children.
Detective Patrick Maierhofer, who has made an appeal for other women to come forward, said: ‘He always used the same tactics. He would look at women in bars and was always charming and attentive.
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