The trial of a criminal quartet at the Eisenstadt regional court ended on Wednesday afternoon with a verdict of guilty. The suspect must be behind bars for a maximum of six and a half years for theft or robbery and smuggling.
In February, three men and a young woman had to answer for the first time before the court in Eisenstadt for drug crimes, smuggling and theft. The accusations weighed heavily: the Chechen Sabu A., who had six previous convictions (currently serving a prison sentence for other crimes), together with his Lower Austrian ex-girlfriend Melissa W (25), a previously convicted Tunisian (38) and a Turkish VUT (25) who also had a criminal record robbed two Algerian drug dealers of their apartment in Vienna. Melissa W. served as decoy and made sexual advances towards the dealers. This allowed the quartet access to the apartment, where they stole money, mobile phones and drugs. All four defendants – who threatened the victims with knives and pepper spray – pleaded “not guilty” at the first trial, saying they only wanted to buy cocaine.
witness did not appear
The Tunisian, who was also accused of smuggling, wanted nothing to do with smuggling. As more witnesses were called for, the trial had to be stayed and has now continued. But the two victims have since been deported from the country and a Chechen who had nominated Sabu A. (27) as a defense witness did not come.
High prison sentences
The Chechen, who was already violent in the first trial, continued to interrupt the judge and the prosecutor and was so aggressive that even public defender Nikolaus Mitrovits was annoyed that his client was “unpopular” but rather a “Chechen hothead” he dutifully demanded an acquittal on behalf of his client. In the end, despite the best efforts of the lawyers, it settled four convictions! Sabu A. received another six years in prison and has to serve a total of nine years. For the Tunisian, there were six and a half years. Co-defendant Turk received three and a half years in prison, A.’s ex-girlfriend Melissa W., just like A., received two years in prison on top of her existing sentence. The 25-year-old was the only one to accept the verdict. She will be behind bars for a total of four years.
The Tunisian and the Turk asked for time to think, the Chechen immediately raised his voice and announced “full appeal”. The prison guards had to intervene several times because of the behavior of A….
Source: Krone
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