Nearly five months after the death of a young man in Anhalt Köthen on Tuesday at the regional court of Dessau the trial of two Afghans. The 17 and 18-year-old defendant, on trial for grievous bodily harm and assault resulting in death.
After the reading of the charges, the 17-year-old Afghan expressed first to the allegations. He read a statement in English, he spoke to the victim’s family his condolences and “a terrible accident”. It’ll do him, “very sorry that they had lost their son, brother and friend,” he explained.
According to the indictment, the two Afghans on 8 to. September in Köthen first, a country man and injured have beaten. In the dispute, it was about the pregnancy of a young woman, who was also at the scene, and the question, by whom she is pregnant. A group was added, including a 22-year-old man found to have tried to settle the dispute.
Köthener to have a the defendants first of all, a slap in the face, he fell to the ground. There he and the other defendants should have at least added a kick to the torso or head. Resuscitation attempts were unsuccessful. The young man died later in a hospital.
The 17-Year-old said in court that he was only in the hospital of the death of the husband, and this was for him “the biggest shock of his life”. To Ask whether the allegations against him were false, he stressed, once again, to have seen nothing. He described the events in court with the help of an interpreter. Therefore, a lot of alcohol was drunk until it came to the clashes.
A legal medical opinion is that the cause of death was “in all probability, an acute heart attack”, which was allegedly caused by a congenital severe heart disease triggered. A favourable effect of the by the conflict-induced stress, which have wrought violence and the significant alcohol of the victim, could, it was said. The accused, who were under the influence of alcohol to the time of the crime, are in prison on remand.
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