Two women accidentally collide on their way to the toilet at a popular Viennese club. One woman’s cold drink spills over the other’s tight dress. What happens as a result is dramatic: the victim’s face will be permanently disfigured.
“We were celebrating our birthday, it was a really nice evening,” the victim recalled on January 29. Previously, in the early morning hours, people would make their way from the dance floor to the toilet in the chic club in the center of Vienna and spill the defendant’s ice-cold drink all over her tight dress.
Trigger: A spilled drink
What happened between the collision and the end of the dramatic incident can no longer be precisely reconstructed in the Viennese countryside. Exactly this: the wine glass from which the 26-year-old young mother first spilled her drink ended up in the cheek of the student of the same age.
Bleeding that can hardly be stopped
“She swung out of nowhere and hit me in the face with the full wine glass,” the victim told the judge, crying bitterly. The shards of glass pierced her cheek and opened a four-inch wound in her mouth. There was blood everywhere: ‘It splattered in the mouth.’ What remains, quoted from the Criminal Code, is ‘significant mutilation or conspicuous disfigurement.’ Several scars are visible on the face.
For experts “high kinetic energy required”
The defendant, defended by lawyer Andreas Strobl, who also celebrated a birthday at the club, claims to have been pushed back after being pushed: “I didn’t even think about the glass.” According to the statements of expert Christian Reiter, the court does the same. I don’t agree with this. To pierce a cheek “requires a high level of kinetic energy.” After a two-hour hearing, Ms Rat handed down the sentence for the 26-year-old: twelve months’ probation.
Source: Krone
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