Der Mörder von Avegno sah seine eigene Mutter als "Königin der Hexen"
Published: Thursday, May 2nd 2024, 17:10
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The man who madly killed his mother in the Maggia Valley in spring 2022 was found guilty of murder at the Lugano Criminal Court on Thursday. The court followed the prosecution's demand and ordered inpatient treatment in a closed institution due to a serious mental disorder.
The accused needs therapy. A therapy that he could not receive in prison, the presiding judge explained to the Lugano Criminal Court on Thursday.
He rated the risk of recidivism as high, as the young man had killed his mother while delusional. It was conceivable that the accused also considered other people to be threatening beings and attacked them. The public must therefore be protected from the man.
The accused had not wanted to kill his mother as such, but the one he saw as "the queen of witches" in his psychotic disorder, the judge continued. For this reason, the man had to receive psychiatric treatment in the first instance. The accused's brother was awarded 50,000 francs in compensation by the court.
"Extremely brutal acts"
The now 23-year-old killed his mother in Avegno TI in the Maggia Valley in April 2022. According to the indictment, he beat his mother to death in her sleep "with more blows than necessary to take her life". He also stabbed the 61-year-old woman with a knife. In its indictment, the public prosecutor's office in Ticino classified these acts as "particolarmente violenti" - "extremely brutal".
According to information from the public prosecutor's office in Ticino, the accused was not available for questioning for a long time after the crime. He spent almost two years in pre-trial detention in a healthcare facility.
According to the psychiatric report reproduced in the indictment, the man had already been aggressive and angry towards his mother before his crime. He had also started consuming large quantities of cannabis around a year before the murder.
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