13 years in prison for attempted murder in Esch required
Actually, Alex A. only wants a beer on the terrace of the Escher Café do Brasil II on the early Saturday evening of August 18, 2018 drink. There he randomly meets his well -known Anilton T. He is known to his well -known Anilton and is actually not likely to stay in the café due to applicable judicial requirements, but does this.
Eyewitnesses describe Anilton T. as « excited » that day. « He was not in his normal condition, » describes A witness on Thursday in front of the criminal chamber. The accused celebrated all night and already smoked several joints. In general, the accused, who partly stays ahead with undeclared work as a hairdresser, has severe alcohol and drug problems. The accused drinks daily, excessive, as his defender later explains.
Three stitches could have ended life -threatening
On the evening of August 18, Anilton T. finally sacrificed the terrace of Café Do Brasil II, and tries to talk in Creole to start. The acquaintance understands Creole, but not a word of his counterpart. He later states that Anilton T. had alcoholized and worked on drugs. He is also said to have performed provocatively.
Anilton T. suddenly pulls a pocket knife out of his shoulder bag. As he later explained, he only took it with him to peel an apple he had brought with him. « He said he didn’t like the bowl of the apple and therefore had the knife with him, » the investigator recalls the accused’s statements. Without warning, Anilton T. then stabs his victim three times with the folding knife. The situation can only be defused after another visitor to the café intervened.
He said he didn’t like the bowl of the apple and therefore had the knife with him.
Investigator
The victim suffers several, sometimes potentially life -threatening stab wounds. One of them in the left chest area. Part of the lungs are hit, but heals again without consequences. However, it could have been worse, as the forensic doctor explains in court on Thursday: « Stab injuries in the chest can potentially always be life -threatening ». In addition to the lungs, other organs such as the heart could have been hit.
Another stitch hits the victim’s left cheek. This could also have had serious consequences. « If he had hit his neck below the cheek, there would have been a risk of life, » says the forensic doctor. The victim suffers a third, less dangerous stab injury on the left arm.
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Alex A. is admitted to the Escher hospital, but leaves it again the following day at his own request. A day later, however, pain in the area of the cheek forcing him to be treated again by a doctor. However, he does not bear any of them.
Four years on the run
The accused, Anilton T., escapes towards Rue de l’Alzette after the crime and throws away the weapon. From then on there is no trace of the suspect, the corresponding search campaigns of the police are running into nothing. Anilton T. later says that he did not want to face the consequences for fear of the consequences. The accused leaves his girlfriend and her child at the time and her child together, instead he escapes abroad on the day of the crime. A friend first drives him to Athus (B), later on to Paris (F).
Anilton T. lives in the French capital for two years before he continues to Nice (F). There, in August 2022, almost four years after the crime, he was provided by the French authorities and delivered to Luxembourg a short time later.
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Anilton T. remains guilty of an answer to the question of why he started on August 18, 2018 for no apparent reason with a knife on his acquaintance. “Why did you have your friend Alex Towned with a knife? ”The judge asks the accused again on Thursday.“ I don’t know ”, is the defendant’s short answer, who indicates that he can no longer remember the day of the crime. He does not regret for the attack.
Death of the victim accepted
For the public prosecutor, it is clear: Anilton T. has accepted the possible death of his acquaintance and brought it into potential danger to life. If the other café visitor had not been in between, the representative of the public prosecutor’s office had threatened. She demands 13 years in prison for the accused for attempted murder. Part of it could be interpreted as a probation for the accused. Approximately On the condition that it either takes part in an anti-aggression course or goes into psychiatric treatment.
The defender of Anilton T., on the other hand, calls for a milder punishment. Instead of attempted murder, he advocates on intentional bodily harm. The defender describes his client at the time excessively drank alcohol, but in the meantime largely committed himself to alcohol and drugs. The lawyer denies that he wanted to bring his victim to life. « It may also be that when he hit his acquaintance, he had forgotten that he had a knife in his hand, » the defender tried to explain the crime. If the court is his Consulting clients for prison sentence should be suspended integral on probation, he demands.
The criminal chamber will announce its judgment on May 2. The presumption of innocence applies to Anilton T. until a final conviction.
