The trial of a 22-year-old murder case in which an Italian was murdered in 2001 ended Tuesday in the Graz Regional Criminal Court with a guilty verdict and an acquittal. The suspect was found guilty by the jury. The alleged client, on the other hand, was narrowly acquitted.
The man, who would have acted as the direct perpetrator at the time, was sentenced by the court to 19.5 years in prison. The eight jurors found him guilty by a vote of six to two. In the case of the accused Slovak, who was on the list of suspects, the jury did not reach a majority: they voted four to four and the woman had to be acquitted.
Descriptions are “questionable and adventurous”
In her closing speech, the man’s lawyer said the prosecution would essentially be based on testimony, but some of these descriptions were “questionable and almost adventurous.” She also found the investigations in Slovakia “incomplete”. She believes some “made something up out of rumours” to get the two involved. She emphasized that in case of doubt, the suspect must be acquitted.
The Slovak’s lawyer, on the other hand, was convinced that the first defendant had his own reason for killing the Italian: “All witnesses who say that my client would have received an order come from his environment.” “a few small proofs”, the rest are indications that can be interpreted in one direction.
Italians lured to Austria and killed
The prosecutor spoke of an act of greed from the very beginning, and the accused denied everything to the end. The woman is said to have robbed the Italian, who fell in love with her in the late 1990s, of all his money. When the Slovak, who lives in her homeland, demanded more and more money and life insurance from him for her daughter, the Italian, who also lives in Slovakia, threatened to press charges. An acquaintance of the woman would have come up with the idea of luring the Italian to Austria and murdering him in Styria. The man was killed in Sinabelkirchen in Styria. The planner and one of the direct perpetrators were sentenced in 2019 to 17 and 18 years in prison for murder.
The verdict is not final.
Source: Krone
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