Solothurn: Defense lawyer pleads for 13 years imprisonment
Published: Tuesday, Apr 9th 2024, 16:01
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The woman who killed two of her three daughters in Gerlafingen SO at the beginning of 2021 should be convicted of multiple intentional homicide instead of murder. This is what the defense lawyer demanded on Tuesday at the Bucheggberg-Wasseramt district court in Solothurn. A sentence of 13 years' imprisonment would be appropriate.
"A crime of this magnitude always has a history," said the defense lawyer. In his plea, he focused on his client's personality disorders, which had been established by experts, as the cause of her crimes. The Swiss woman should be obliged to undergo outpatient treatment while serving her sentence.
The defense lawyer recapitulated the life of the accused, starting with the first years of her childhood in South America - first as a street child, later in an orphanage. The then eight-year-old had not been prepared for adoption by a Swiss couple.
His client described her youth in Switzerland as unhappy. Her mother had been strict and she had remained an outsider at school. Her father, with whom she still has a good relationship, was often absent. She had her first daughter with a first partner, who was 12 years old at the time of the crime, and a few years later she had the two later victims with her second partner.
No exact memory
On the morning of January 16, 2021, the accused was thinking about suicide. However, she did not want to leave her two daughters, aged 7 and 8, alone. For this reason, she killed them in their beds with a targeted stab to the heart. However, the accused could not remember the exact details.
His client's actions should not be understood as revenge against her husband, as the prosecution claims, said the defense lawyer. Due to her disorder, she had "subjectively and incomprehensibly" seen her younger daughters in danger with their father.
She had made corresponding statements to the authorities in the weeks before the crime - in relation to which she is accused of defamation. She should be acquitted of this accusation, as she had not deliberately lied, said the defense lawyer.
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