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A 39-year-old has to answer in court for a poisoned cinnamon roll
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A 39-year-old man from Erlangen has admitted to having given his 41-year-old wife and her mother a cinnamon bun prepared with sleeping pills to eat.
In the jury court room of the Nuremberg Regional Court, the man apologized at the start of the trial on Thursday: He was sorry - and he was glad that the two women had not suffered any permanent damage.
The background to the fact seems to be a separation dispute: After the birth of their son, the couple had drifted apart, as one witness described.
After the separation, the father only saw his son twice a week, financial problems, occasional drug use and health problems were added.
In November 2020, according to his confession, the man mixed the sleeping pill Etizolam in high doses into the filling of his cinnamon rolls.
According to him, in order to incapacitate his wife for a weekend in order to be able to spend time with his son.
However, the prosecution pleaded murder in their indictment.
Mother-in-law had to be intubated
The wife survived the bite into the prepared cinnamon bun in November of last year, but had to be treated in the hospital for several days.
She suffered from speech disorders, paralysis and confusion, according to the prosecution's indictment.
Her mother, who ate the rest of the cinnamon bun two days later, was even worse off.
She had to be intubated and artificially ventilated in the intensive care unit.
Bader and the judges in his chamber now have to clarify what should happen to the 39-year-old in the future - seven more trial days are scheduled until July 29.
sol / dpa
