What happened that Morning really, as right in the middle of Zürich-Wiedikon were 13 shots fired? This question is now open again, after today, a decision of the Federal court has become public. He relates to those city police officers who turned in at that time, eleven of the 13 shots.
The policeman was on 27. December 2015 in the Early part of a Patrol that wanted to control close to of the forge Wiedikon a then 42-year-old Ethiopians. This was noticed the police officers because he was carrying a 25-centimetre-long butcher’s knife in Hand.
stopped Than a total of five police officers the man, went on one of the police officers, wherein he “should have said kill me, kill me”. Two of the police officers fired in the sequence, a total of 13 shots, six of the bullets hit the man. This suffered life-threatening injuries.
“Unclear evidence”
The Zurich district attorney’s office closed the criminal proceedings against the two police officers in March of last year. The Supreme court of Zurich rejected a later appeal by the Ethiopian father is against this. The Federal court has now decided, however, that the criminal investigation against the police officers needs to be continued. It has upheld a complaint by the Ethiopian father.
adherence to the Lausanne judges, on the basis of the “in the present case, obviously, unclear evidence,” do not judge, whether the firearms used in the main to protect legally. The Zurich high court had rejected the existing suspicions by means of hypotheses.
ask for shot distance
the judgment of the Federal court shows that the police officer shot according to its own figures twice in the torso area of the victim. Then he was moved back to like with the back against the bumper of the patrol car pushed backwards and to the ground. Then he got shot again, as the man with the knife “- I kind of bent over him”. In the consequence it came to a scramble.
The Federal court writes that it appeared questionable that the police officer had made in this scramble for more shots, as the shot distance for all shots must have at least half a Meter.
debt-to-incapable victim
Against the Ethiopians also launched a criminal investigation. The Zurich district court acquitted him in December of 2016 from the charges of attempted serious injury. The man suffers from a schizophrenic psychosis and was, at the time of the offence incompetent. The district court ordered, as the prosecution had applied for an outpatient therapy. (hub/sda)
Created: 05.04.2019, 12:07 PM
