The 34-year-old Jenny Z. was scared and reported to the police. But although her ex threatened her, the advertisement was dropped. A few months later she is dead. This year’s fifth woman raises the question again: why does protection for women often only apply if it is too late?
It was threatened. She showed him. Now she is dead: the 34-year-old Native German Jenny Z. had actually behaved well. She filed a complaint with the police against her former partner Krisztian Papp in the previous year – because of a dangerous threat and material damage, as confirmed by the Salzburg public prosecutor. In the past, the 32-year-old Hungarian had threatened the gastromial employee several times, and it was worse after the relationship in the past year.
In the night of Saturday, he would have executed his ex-partner in the Salzburg community of Maria Alm with a main shot-the “Kroon” reported. But the sequence of events regarding their passage to the police raises questions: Does someone first become a perpetrator so that the victim is protected by the authorities? The case of Jenny Z. shows how Cicpigal protection can be, even when a woman dares to take the step to the police.
Prohibition would have started the protective chain
Because: 32-year-old Hungary did not get a ban on entering and increasing the police. “He was in court,” said the spokesperson for the Salzburg police, Hans Wolfgruber to Krone. Such a ban was already planned, but it could not be implemented. The reason: the suspect was abroad at the time of the advertisement. According to the police, a personal investigation is needed for such a ban. The “necessary formal requirements” were therefore not paid.
A ban on entering and approaching would have started a decisive intervention chain that Jenny Z. would have better protected, explains Sonja Aziz, lawyer of victim protection. As a result, the person concerned would not only have been contacted and legal and psychosocial, but “the organization would have created a security plan and probably advised to prevent contact with her ex-partner,” Aziz to Krone.
There is a close, institutionalized cooperation between the violence centers and the police, while Christina Riezler, director of the Salzburg Violence Protection Center, emphasizes. “Like any other authority or organization, the police can transfer people to us who need our help.”
The office of the public prosecutor in Salzburg hired the procedure against Krisztian Papp to change New Year – also because, according to the police, there were no “newer or other violations against the woman”. This is fundamentally correct, says Aziz. “My practical experience shows that the judiciary considered such a threat to be too vague. If there had been violent exercises in the past, the facts might have been different.”
According to the spokesperson for the Salzburg public prosecutor, Florian Weinkamer, there was no “specific announcement of violence against body, freedom, honor or wealth”. Saceme protection lawyer Sonja Aziz also finds at least discussed why this was not considered in the WhatsApp framework that the Hungarian Jenny sent by explaining “a nightmare” by her life. Until now, the office of the public prosecutor in Salzburg has given no explanation.
But it is precisely that order of events that can decide on life and death, as well as in the Jenny Z. case, the 34-year-old decided to completely file a complaint against her ex-boyfriend. Many people who are affected by violence do not even take this step.
Freieben: “Fatal Victim Perpetratoromkering”
“The more details become known, the more dismay you wonder why Jenny was not protected,” says Klaudia Frieben, chairman of the Austrian women’s ring. She criticizes that no prohibition was published, although documented threats have already been made. Freifen suspects that the lack of a ban on entering and increasing the unpaid prohibition of weapons has led to the fact that there was no reason for a further official assessment. A weapon ban would have been automatically imposed as soon as a ban on the introduction and approach was issued.
Frieben speaks about a “fatal perpetrator victim-in-terms”-the suspect is thought more than the affected. As a result, many women remained unprotected. The chairman of the Austrian women’s ring requires: “A general ban on weapons in the private sector must finally be seriously discussed.”
It is uncertain whether Jenny Z. would still live today if these measures had been taken. Even whether the Salzburg police did not believe that the victim will not be shown from the previous information. However, it remains doubtful why the ban on entering and approaching the victim was not pursued- even if the alleged perpetrator was abroad.
Aziz still sees the reform needs for the protection of the victim – especially when giving the subjective feeling of the victims more weight. An important step was already taken with the National Action Plan (NAP) decided in April to fight violence against women and girls. The goal is to close “gaps in violence”. The further expansion of the national outpatient clinics for Violent Linics is also planned in the current government program.
Riezler also emphasizes: “Much has improved violence in recent years. The issue of domestic violence is more present than ever – and that is a good thing.” It is important for her that those affected by the Jenny Z. case do not get the impression that they would not get help. “We have to make it clear to people that they receive support from the police and victim protection facilities – and that the protection of violence works very well in most cases,” said Riezler. For Jenny Z., protection was incomplete – with fatal consequences.
Source: Krone
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