On the fifth day of the hearing, his version was completely different. A 19-year-old Afghan, the second accused in the case of the killed 13-year-old Leonie, had always claimed to have only “cuddled” with the girl. Yesterday, at the continuation of the trial, which had been postponed due to illness, he admitted to having had sexual intercourse with the 13-year-old. DNA traces had previously disproved the first version of the 19-year-old.
“I should have said that before, but I was afraid,” he said yesterday before the Vienna Regional Court. When asked by an assessor why he was afraid, the 19-year-old, tenant of the apartment in which Leonie died, said only: “I don’t know, I was ashamed.” However, the sex was consensual.
“Go to the police or I will”
The public prosecutor assumes that the three accused, aged between 19 and 24, drugged the girl on June 26 of the previous year in an apartment in Vienna-Donaustadt with intent to abuse them and then assaulted the 13-year-old. The girl did not survive the drug cocktail. The autopsy report revealed that the 13-year-old died a violent death as a result of drug poisoning and suffocation. Who administered the ecstasy – the public prosecutor assumes a total of seven tablets, one of which the girl is said to have taken voluntarily beforehand – is the central question in the trial. So far, the men have blamed each other. They denied the allegation of rape.
On the fifth day of the trial, more witnesses spoke. These are friends and acquaintances of the accused who had contact with the accused shortly after the 13-year-old’s death. “He called me and said he needed my help,” said a friend of the second defendant. In the car, his friend then told about the 13-year-old. “She didn’t want any of that,” said the 20-year-old about his friend’s stories on the witness stand.
“Go to the police or I’ll do it,” said the 20-year-old at the time to the accused. “I could tell he was in shock.” Because the 19-year-old didn’t dare, he went with the acquaintance to an inspection and filed a complaint.
Other people involved?
The witness claims to have noticed that not only the three suspects and the 13-year-old were in the apartment on the night of the crime, but another man and a girl. Most of the lawyers then requested that the two be summoned as witnesses. Presiding judge Anna Marchart has not yet decided on this. Two more dates are planned – the verdicts are to fall on December 2nd.
Source: Nachrichten
