It was an adventurous attempt at a statement by the suspect (37): According to the public prosecutor, she stabbed her ex-partner twice in an apartment in Hallein at the end of October 2021. On the contrary, she spoke of a scramble. And: “I didn’t want that.” The jury did not believe her and unanimously found her guilty of attempted murder. The non-final verdict: ten years in prison.
In a flurry of speeches, the accused – a small and only 1.5 meters tall local – tried to explain the bloody dispute with her ex-partner to the jury in the Salzburg regional court on Tuesday: “I just wanted to scare him with the knife Sharp and 35 centimeter long kitchen knife – the murder weapon in the incident on October 30 in an apartment in Hallein.
The two stings happened in a scuffle with the man, the woman says: The first stab went through the jacket, sweater and T-shirt into the victim’s chest and led to what doctors say is a life-threatening opening to the chest cavity. The second stab wound was in the upper arm. “I just wanted the fight to end. I didn’t want to kill him.”
Victim suffers to this day
According to her, after the first stab, the victim even pulled the knife from his own chest. When asked, she only spoke about her alcohol consumption: the woman, who lives on social assistance, had 1.5 permille at the time of the crime. But she was healthy.
She has already provided authorities with several versions of the crime – in a letter to the court, she even accused the victim of sex crimes. A cellmate said as a witness: “She likes to slip into the victim role.” Due to the injuries, the ex still has “huge breathing problems and feelings of anxiety”, his lawyer reports.
The non-final verdict: ten years in prison for attempted murder.
Source: Krone
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