The second day of the trial in the Leonie case began on Wednesday in the Vienna Regional Court. The first suspect was interrogated on the first day of the trial. He pleaded partially guilty. Now the Afghan who owns the apartment where the crime took place has to sit in the dock. His lawyer Thomas Nirk stated at the beginning of the trial that his client would plead guilty.
It is unlikely that the second defendant in the Leonie case will plead guilty: “It’s not true, but I plead guilty,” the 19-year-old replies when asked by Anna Marchart. Although Leonie would have been in his apartment and also took an ecstasy tablet, he would not have raped her under any circumstances. “I went to sleep and when I woke up she was lying still on a mattress,” he says in court.
A statement full of contradictions
He didn’t notice anything else that night. When he testified to the police, things looked very different. Even now he contradicts himself: at first he did not know how old she was. Then he says, “She wrote to me on Instagram that she was under 17, but that’s none of my business. She’s not my girlfriend.”
Stories invented out of shock
But he has an explanation for the constant contradictions in his police interrogation and the statement of the suspect: “I was very scared and in shock!”. “And did you make up a story out of sheer terror?” asks Judge Anna Marchart skeptically. He doesn’t want to be able to remember his previous statements at all: “What I say today is true!”
Want to sleep all the time
The original version – he didn’t know how many drugs Leonie had taken and the first accused then raped her – he was only told and again. ‘How am I supposed to know? I was sleeping,” he said in court. Also, “I didn’t rape Leonie. If she was still alive, she could confirm this.”
Source: Krone
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