As a “tragedy that is hard to beat,” referred to the state attorney, the family drama was yesterday brought before the district court of Bülach : The twelve-year-old son had to watch his mother’s father joined the kitchen knife to the heart. The boy and two of his three siblings to alert the paramedics, and started over the telephone by the dispatchers of protection and rescue with the rescue. However, the 45-year-old mother died in the apartment of her injuries.

The fact of 17. October 2017 in the regional municipality of Wasterkingen, the sad culmination of a year long relationship dispute. The couple came from Montenegro. When the accused is a 52 year-old Ex-professional officer in the Serbian army. He deserted the Yugoslav civil war and fled in 1999 with his wife to Switzerland, where they filed for Asylum.

IV-pension and social assistance,

Domestic violence and quarrels were common, the Canton police had to repeatedly disengaging. Most of the conflicts around money and the health condition of the man shot. This has been suffering since 2005 with a brain tumor and was five times surgery. He suffered from epileptic seizures and depression, and received a disability pension. The family lived of the pension and the social assistance. The IV-pension but it was suspended in 2014 after the IV had recognized a social detectives to the man.

The process of Wednesday, the 52-Year-old confessed. “I couldn’t control myself,” he said, and not said that he is reminded of the fact. According to the indictment, he repeated on that evening, after a violent quarrel with his wife a kitchen knife from the drawer and stabbed the 20-centimeter-long blade four times: in the upper arm, the shoulder, the cheek and in the end, with a deliberate stab in the heart – in the presence of the boys.

Diminished capacity

the state’s lawyer, it was intentional killing. The act was done out of vain: “The wife has annoyed him and he wanted you out of the way.” The Prosecutor demanded a sentence of 15 years and an equally long country of reference. The fact was under the influence of his brain tumor and the associated changes in personality, was the reason that she pleaded not to murder.

The defender demanded a surprising acquittal: “The deed is done in a state of complete incapacity.” He referred to the psychiatric report, agreed his client has a moderate or even severe restriction of the Debt. The severe restriction of stirring, therefore, that the woman had struck that night, the man on the head, where the Doctors ceiling a part of the skull with an artificial implant had provided. That the woman should have done this, but it was only the Version of the accused.

For the court, it was intentional killing. It sentenced the man to imprisonment for a term of eleven years and a ten-year country reference. The man had stabbed the woman. The blows to the head, the court denied; the defendant had only moderate debt, a reduced ability to.

(Tages-Anzeiger)

Created: 28.02.2019, 11:34 PM