On April 25, 2018, a man living in Switzerland killed his ex-wife and son by shooting them 31 times. His lawyers presented him as suffering from intellectual limitations rather than as an assassin.
The facts took place in Switzerland on April 25, 2018 and on Tuesday March 8, 2022, International Women’s Rights Day, the accused was sentenced to life imprisonment and deportation from Swiss territory for a period of 15 years. His crime? Killing his ex-wife and son by emptying two Glock magazines into them, either 31 balls in total. When he killed his ex the accused shot him six times in the face, before shooting 24 more times in the head, chest and abdomen of his two victims. If the Court saw him as a cold-blooded assassin who premeditated the murder of his ex-wife, whom he had already beaten and who had decided to leave him, his lawyers wanted to explore another track. My Patrick Michod and Tracy Salamin indeed wanted to explain that their client, far from being a killer, is simply a father with a tragic history and overwhelmed by events.
Invoking his intellectual limitations, the lawyers specified that he is a man virtually illiterate and borderline disabled, having survived the tortures of his father and brothers as a child. A much more measured portrait intended to attract the sympathy of the Court. Only after analyzes by several psychiatrists, the accused was found responsible for his actions and therefore able to bear the consequences. As for his explanation that he had a gun in his car because he intended to go to the shooting range, it also failed to convince the Court. The man claimed to have wanted to chat with his ex-wife on his way to her house, then to have fired a first shot accidentally when his son jumped on him.
The accused was sentenced to life imprisonment
During the judgment, the premeditation was retained and pushed the Court to ask for the maximum sentence. In fact, on the night of April 22 to 23, the accused harassed text message victim sending over 70 messages calling her “trail” and “liar“.After his day at work on April 25so he was grabbing his gun, two ammunition loaders then he went to his ex-wife to commit femicide. For the President of the Court, Yasmina Bendani, the explanation is simple: the accused “preferred to delete it than to let his wife rebuild her life on her side“report our Swiss colleagues in Le matin.
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A Swiss was sentenced to life imprisonment
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He harassed her
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His lawyers wanted to plead intellectual limitation
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The accused is virtually illiterate
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Psychiatrists examined him
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They believe he is responsible for his actions.