After a dirty video in a community accommodation in Regensburg: an act of revenge with a screwdriver?

Created: 01/14/2022, 23:07

The accused Goran K. in the courtroom: is he the perpetrator or the victim?

© Martin Oswald

Did a 30-year-old attack his roommate with a screwdriver because he filmed him masturbating?

Finding the truth at the Regensburg Regional Court is difficult.

Regensburg - For the Second Criminal Chamber of the Regensburg Regional Court* under the presidency of Judge Dr.

Finding out the truth isn't easy for Michael Hammer.

Goran K. (30) sits in the dock.

The public prosecutor accuses him of attempted manslaughter in a less serious case.

He is said to have attacked his roommate Salar H. in a shared accommodation with a screwdriver.

The prosecutors believe that it was an act of revenge for a compromising video that Salar H. is said to have distributed.

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Screwdriver attack in Regensburg: the accused sees himself as a victim

The video shows Goran K. getting out of the shower and masturbating. The fact that even his father and his fiancée saw it in Kurdistan is a shame for the 30-year-old, who says he is very religious. That's why he also reported Salar H. A criminal investigation is under way against him. But he doesn't want to have attacked him - although the court gave the accused the prospect of getting away with a suspended sentence if he confessed. However, Goran K. sees himself as the real victim.

While the allegedly injured party, Salar H., says that he was always nice to his roommate and always helped him “one hundred percent”, “like a father or brother”, Goran K. describes his roommate in a completely different way.

His defense attorney Julian Wunderlich explains that Salar H. is said to have insulted him at first.

"I fuck your mother" or "faggot" were chanted in a social shisha and beer round in the accommodation.

When the defendant wanted to confront Salar H., he hit him in the face.

Friends should have pulled him away from Goran K..

Screwdriver attack: "A highly affective event"

He then went to his room, the defendant said.

But Salar H. followed him and started hitting him again.

Goran K., almost blind, defended himself with a screwdriver that he happened to have in his trouser pocket.

He didn't stab him, just waved the tool back and forth in front of him.

Several witnesses are heard by the chamber on the first day of the hearing.

But they have consistently heard almost nothing of the argument.

"We know too little", says judge Hammer, only "that it was a highly affective event".

Next Monday, witnesses are to be questioned about the video, which according to the indictment could be the motive for an act of revenge by Goran K.

It is unclear what punishment K. can expect and whether the charge of attempted manslaughter will be upheld, because the court still knows too little.