In mid-October 2019, this case caused quite a stir. A German-Afghan who was 18 years old at the time of the crime was charged with manslaughter. He was recently acquitted in the trial before the juvenile court, as the Karlsruhe Regional Court has only now confirmed upon inquiry. “The chamber assumes that he was acting in self-defense,” explained a spokeswoman.
The 31-year-old man from the Heidelberg area, who died on the spot from severe cuts to his neck, was considered the main aggressor. This was based on several witness statements and the defendant’s own statement. According to the Regional Court, the verdict was given a few weeks ago in the main trial.The public prosecutor’s office had demanded two years juvenile sentence on probation for dangerous bodily injury with fatal consequences, explains Mirko Heim, spokesman for the Karlsruhe public prosecutor’s office, when asked. This means that the public prosecutor’s office assumed…
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