55-year-old Michaela P. has been on trial for attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm since Wednesday.
She is said to have poisoned her former partner with the heavy metal thallium.
According to the prosecution, P. administered the now 48-year-old to small doses of the toxic substance over a period of two years.
Finally, in July 2020, she reportedly administered a potentially fatal dose to him.
The man still suffers from the consequences and is 80 percent severely disabled.
According to the prosecutor, the motive for the crime is to be found in the complicated relationship between the accused and the victim.
Accordingly, she initially poisoned her then partner "to make him dependent on himself," as the indictment read out.
In the act in July 2020, however, she intended to kill him.
The charge is therefore of attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm.
According to the indictment, attempted killing planned perfidiously
In July 2020, according to the indictment, P. is said to have discovered an advertisement on the Internet with which the later victim wanted to sell a watch.
As a result, she is said to have recruited a "test buyer" who involved the man in a meeting at a Berlin brewery until she had mixed the lethal dose of thallium in his Diet Coke.
On the first day of the trial, the defendant's lawyer read a written statement in which P. denied the poisoning between 2017 and 2019.
"I loved Mr. C. and wanted him to be around, by no means his death," said P. in it.
C. has been her "great love" since 1995, although the relationship has been difficult.
Her former partner was violent, including against her children from her first marriage.
When her partner fell ill, she took care of him and did research to find out the cause of his illness.
It was she who received the crucial information about possible poisoning from a doctor and passed it on to enable effective treatment.
After an interim separation, the couple got back together after the man's recovery, but the relationship failed again.
"I wanted him to get sick again and to be his savior again"
The defendant, however, confessed to the subsequent attempt at poisoning in 2020.
However, she did not act with the intention of killing her victim.
"I wanted him to get sick again and to be his savior again," said the 55-year-old.
"I know it was a terrible and selfish plan."
According to information from Interpol, P. tried to order ten grams of thallium from a Polish mail-order company in June 2017, i.e. before the start of the first period of the crime.
Further dates are planned for the process until mid-March.
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