Process for Vapiano murder starts | Luxembourg word

When Sauro D. wakes up on the morning of Easter Sunday 2022, the bed next to him is empty. He does not know whether his partner Sonia D. came home at night. But that was not unusual, Sauro D. later explains to the Italian press. Often she would have had to work longer and came home late, he had already slept.

Even on the morning of Easter Sunday, he is not worried at first, thinks his partner only got up a little earlier to make last purchases for lunch, as well as several guests.

But doubts slowly appear. Sonia D. does not return in the course of the morning. Sauro D. finally raises the alarm and reports to the police. A short time later, in the course of the morning, there is sad certainty: The woman he wanted to marry in a few weeks is dead. She is in the basement of the Italian franchise restaurant Vapiano in Kirchberg, where she was employed as chief de Salle.

Murder for 3,000 euros

Sonia D. was the victim of a brutal violent crime, murdered by two men who were targeting money. On the evening of Holy Saturday, they entered the restaurant in Avenue John F. Kennedy, where Sonia D. worked. She was in the process of counting the daily income. Document video cameras, which then happened. The two hooded men beat the woman several times, strangled them and brought them to the safe in the basement. There they continued to hit the 46-year-old. The perpetrators stole a total of 3,000 euros and left their victim in the basement. There she succumbed to her injuries.

A special unit of the police arrested three suspects eleven days after the crime. Two of them in a building on the capital -city Place de la Gare. The two men are said to have been responsible for the bloody act in the Vapiano. A third person is caught in Rue de la Paix in Bonneweg. It is a work colleague from Sonia D. He is said to have acted as a tipper and gave the perpetrators access to the restaurant. House searches follow in several places to secure evidence.

Perpetrators threaten lifelong prison sentence

The three defendants will have to answer in front of the criminal chamber in the capital from Tuesday: the two alleged perpetrators, who are still in custody, as well as the colleague, who is said to have gained access to the restaurant at the time. Why he made her in the restaurant should also become an issue in court.

Three days are scheduled for the process. Especially for the two alleged perpetrators that could end with a long prison sentence. Article 475 of the Criminal Code regulates that a killing that is committed to facilitate theft or blackmail is punished with lifelong imprisonment.