Process Lockout – No one should know the details of Leonie’s death

It was to be expected: On Monday, family lawyers Florian Höllwarth and Johannes Öhlböck filed a motion to bar the public from the main hearing against the young Afghans. The trial will begin on September 27 at the Vienna Regional Court, which also decides on the application.

The victim’s very personal area of ​​life
They are charged with rape resulting in death and serious sexual abuse of minors. An exclusion is not uncommon. It concerns the very personal area of ​​​​life of the victim, who was still a minor at the time of the crime. And therefore, according to the lawyers, it deserves special protection. The parents and the sister also do not think it reasonable that the incidents are described in front of a larger group of people who have nothing to do with the victim’s family.

Drugged and Abused
Leonie was found dead early in the morning of June 26. Filed on a green verge in the 22nd arrondissement. According to court records, the girl was drugged and abused. They had mixed her ecstasy tablets into a drink, and she died of drug poisoning and suffocated. The girl met one of the later perpetrators via “Instagram” and met her on the Danube Canal. He then took her to his apartment, where the other guys joined…

It threatens to be jailed for life
One defendant is 23 years old and faces life imprisonment if convicted by a jury, while the other young adults could face a maximum of 20 years under juvenile justice. Seven days of negotiations are on the agenda.