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His client did not kill the victim – a 39-year-old man with whom the defendant’s wife entered a relationship after she had separated from her husband – intentionally, but in a generally understandable, violent emotion, said defense attorney Rudolf Mayer at the beginning of the negotiation.
“I just did bambam,” said the shooter in his statement. He had no intention of killing, but wanted to get his wife’s new boyfriend to delete sex videos with his wife that were allegedly stored on his cell phone. The defendant claimed that the man who was killed blackmailed him with these videos by calling him from a blocked number a few hours before the shooting and telling him to stay away from the woman. Otherwise he will publish the videos on the Internet.
“I wanted to correct everything my wife did wrong”
The defendant stated that he simply had to do something: “I had no other choice. I wanted to correct everything my wife did wrong.” However, the new friend did not give him the mobile phone and thus did not allow the files to be deleted. Instead, the man ran to the window, ripped it open and “Help, police!” called. Then he “panic” and shot the man several times: “I didn’t want that. I fell into anger and despair. It happened very quickly, the bullets were very fast.”
“It’s clear that he shot,” defender Mayer said. The 36-year-old shooter behaved “typically for someone who’s going crazy”: “It’s a classic case of anger and desperation, where someone does something who has never done anything bad in their life. It really is manslaughter, as he says in the textbook. His client is “not a cold-blooded murderer,” said Mayer.
That is exactly what the public prosecutor’s office assumes. There is no evidence for the existence of videos showing the wife having sex with the dead man, as the prosecution said during a five-minute break in the hearing at the request of the APA. “Driven by his jealousy because his wife had separated from him and entered into a new relationship, the accused traveled to Vienna, taking a handgun with him to seek out and kill the victim,” the indictment states.
The accused, who comes from Turkey, went to the 39-year-old’s apartment on Troststrasse in Vienna-Favoriten on February 23, 2022. When the man answered his knock, the accused is said to have pushed him to the ground immediately.
teeth knocked out
The witness of the crime impressively described to the jury how the 39-year-old was killed under a duty of truth. “I was with him because we wanted to watch a series like every Wednesday,” the 25-year-old man recalled. The accused appeared just before 7 p.m. and initially knocked out the 39-year-old’s teeth. He then threatened the owner of the apartment with a gun and asked for his mobile phone, which he refused.
“Then the man pointed the gun at me. He asked for my ID,” said the 25-year-old. The 39-year-old used that to run to the window and call for help: “There he (the shooter, note) went, pulled him away and said he shouldn’t have done it. He has the curtain grabbed and shot.” He was sitting a meter and a half away on the ground and couldn’t help his friend: “I couldn’t do anything. He (the dead man, note) was very nice. I liked him very much.” The shooter then pointed the gun at him again and told him not to betray him: “Otherwise he will find me and kill me.”
The defendant’s wife did not testify
The 25-year-old described the scenes surprisingly calmly and considerately in the absence of the accused, who was taken out of the room before the witnesses were questioned. When asked about this fact by the presiding judge, the young man remarked: “I was completely gone at the time.” And then he explained: “I couldn’t sleep after that. I was very sick for months.” He also sought medical help.
The defendant’s wife made use of her right to dispossession and did not testify. This means that their previous information could not be used. At 12:30 p.m. the hearing was declared over. After a short lunch break, the public prosecutor and the defense attorney make their closing arguments. The verdict should be expected in the afternoon hours.
The shooter fled abroad after the crime. He was arrested in Georgia on July 6, 2022 and subsequently extradited to the Vienna judiciary. The accused moved to Germany with his wife in 2011, where he settled in Baden-Württemberg. Most recently, he worked as a temporary worker in an automobile factory. The man has no criminal record. However, as the investigations by the Viennese prosecutor’s office revealed, he may have often violently attacked his wife. According to the public prosecutor, the man was “extremely jealous”, after assaults and violence against the woman, she separated from her husband in September 2021 and moved in with her sister. And she resumed the relationship with her former childhood sweetheart, who lived in Vienna and whom the accused knew by sight. At the end of October 2021, the German authorities had a ban on approaching the 36-year-old in relation to his wife.
Source: Nachrichten
