There was a new twist in the trial for attempted murder in the Freising district.
A neurologist explained the victim's conflicting statements.
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- There were contradictions that caused considerable irritation in the process of a break-in on a property in the western district of Freising.
The owner was knocked down in his bed by the perpetrators.
After waking up from his unconsciousness, he reported to employees that it was light in his bedroom.
During the initial survey at the Freising Clinic, the 51-year-old farm owner testified that he had not seen anything because it was dark.
In front of the judge, he finally described how he had woken up through a "bright light" and recognized the accused one hundred percent.
Speech disorder caused by cerebral edema
On Wednesday, the neurologist Professor Rolf Schneider, who was invited as an expert, provided clarification before the Landshut court. The contradictions in the statements of the 51-year-old can be explained by a temporary language disorder that was triggered by brain edema. The result of the expert: The statement in the emergency room is “practically unusable” because this disorder, also known as aphasia, was too pronounced at this point in time.
As already reported several times, two brothers have had to answer for attempted murder before the youth chamber since mid-March.
If you follow the younger man's statement at the beginning of the trial, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle: The 18-year-old, who worked for a short time on the 51-year-old's property, admitted the break-in, but he would not have killed the farm owner want.
Neurologist: The injured party showed all the phenomena of aphasia
Instead of his 22-year-old brother, an acquaintance is said to have been involved in the brutal act. It is said to have been the 51-year-old victim who hit the head with a flashlight. The police officers who carried out the initial questioning in the shock room of the Freising Clinic stated in court that the conversation had initially been difficult. The 51-year-old was barely able to articulate himself. You just communicated by nodding or shaking your head.
Gradually the man's condition improved and the injured party even articulated individual words.
In classic aphasia - and the injured party showed “all the phenomena” of such - it often happens, according to the neurologist Rolf Schneider, that the person concerned means the right word but uses the wrong expression.
The expert compared the situation with a "lexicon in the brain": "You open the right section, but you are just off the mark."
The face recognition should not have been impaired
The reference pair light / dark is a prime example here. The 51-year-old said hell right after the incident. According to his employees, the injured party was still able to speak normally. Then an edema slowly developed, which pressed on the convolutions of the brain. The edema regressed later. In the meantime, however, it has significantly influenced the ability to speak. However, it did not trigger a memory disruption.
On the question of the defendant's identification of the perpetrators, Schneider said that the edema had formed in the left hemisphere of the brain.
The right one remained intact - and that is responsible for face recognition.
Schneider had only found the term false memory effect - a falsification of memories brought into play by the defense as a result of the fainting - in the specialist literature only in relation to victims of abuse.
Basically, according to Schneider: "Memory and recollection are something that changes over time." The process will continue on July 28th.
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