53-year-old fights against inpatient therapy

On Monday, the trial against the 53-year-old man began at the Basel criminal court, who fatally injured a then 49-year-old taxi driver with several knife stings on a November evening in 2022.

The act itself is not contested. Around 50 relatives and acquaintances of the victim parted the negotiation on Monday from a second hall, but did not find any new details or even background of the robbery.

Defender Matthias Brunner emphasized right from the start that he advised his client not to make any statements in court. «At the very first question, he learned that he committed this terrible act. There he testified openly and in detail. He said what he could say because of his health and memory, »said Brunner.

Designed saves the prison wage for victim family

The accused then not only wanted to be silent: he is currently working early in prison in the cleaning and put back CHF 20 every month to transfer them to the victim family. « That is the least I can do, » he said.

Shortly before the robbery, the man had inserted a tranchier knife in the Coop at the Basel Aeschenplatz and then climbed into a taxi. Just a few hundred meters away, in Peter-Merian-Strasse, the taxi stopped, the 53-year-old stabbed the driver several times. The public prosecutor considers the crime as a murder.

The negotiation is now mainly about how guilty the man was at the time of the crime and whether he should receive a so -called inpatient measure according to Article 59 instead of a prison sentence. An addiction measure according to Article 60, obviously the preferred version of the accused and the defender would be much less restrictive.

In the morning, the court asked two witnesses mainly on how the man worked after the crime. « He got out, picked up his backpack, raised his hands and said that he hadn’t done anything, » said one of the witnesses.

Expert recommends long -term inpatient measures

Finally, forensicist Tanya Kochuparackal was asked by the court and the parties for two and a half hours in the afternoon: she sees a medium -sized control capacity at the time of the crime and recommends the inpatient measure according to Article 59. However, a prerequisite for this is a serious psychological disorder, and according to the defender, this is not enough on Monday that a party report by the Zurich Forensicer Kiesewetter that reduced the defendant’s problems to an addiction problem.

Koch parackal contradicted, many problems with violence, work and finance have been committed to the man’s life for many years. He does not suffer from an actual personality disorder, but the difficult traits were already present before alcohol and cocaine addiction. It is not enough to only treat addiction.

Man went to the brothel after the crime

The rather selective gaps in memory of the man and his brothel visit immediately after the crime also provided many discussions. However, the appraiser also admitted that in the specific risk of relapse, the man is clearly in the below -average area in terms of violent offenses.

If the court orders an inpatient measure in accordance with Article 59, the duration would theoretically be limited to five years, but a dish can order an extension at any time. When asked by the court president, Kochuparackal confirmed that the entire therapy and the enforcement loosening and also tests in everyday life would hardly be ended within five years.

The Plädoyers are planned on Tuesday, and the five judges should make the judgment on Thursday. However, the defense lawyer applied for the case to be subjected to the case due to numerous defects in the report and to obtain a supplementary report. On Tuesday morning, the court will first have to decide how to proceed.