The case is clear to the prosecutor: In her opinion, the accused murdered a wheelchair user in the Frankfurt Bahnhofsviertel to get into prison. It is the murder characteristics of insidies and low motives, according to the indictment representative at her plea in the Frankfurt district court. The 30-year-old should be sentenced to life in prison.
The accused’s lawyer sees it differently. In his opinion, the fatal knife stings in March 2024 were a manslaughter, he applied for an imprisonment between five and seven years. The judgment is to be announced on Friday (8.30 a.m.).
Full care in custody
According to the prosecutor, the man had lived in an almost impossible apartment in Rhineland-Palatinate Naststätten. “Homelessness in her own apartment,” she calls this state. He had lost his job and hardly any money left. In order to get out of this misery, he said that he decided to commit a serious act of violence and thus secure “full care” in prison. Previously, he had googled, among other things,: “Prison last rescue”.
He took the train to Wiesbaden and from there by taxi to Frankfurt. There he met the wheelchair user on the evening of March 7, who was regularly begging in the station district. First, the two are said to have argued, then the homeless rolled away. According to the prosecutor, the accused is said to have followed him, pulled a kitchen knife out of his backpack in a passage and stung it in his back several times. The attacked person died in a university hospital, the 30-year-old has been in custody since then. In the process, he did not comment on the indictment.
Perceived attack
In his plea, his defender said that the crime was not planned, but was the reaction to a “perceived attack”. Because the homeless threatened his clients. Although he could simply run away, he was in a felt self -defense situation due to his “psychological exception” and therefore stabbed. There are no indications of a killing plan to be custody.
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