Reviewer: Victim lost most of his brain
Created: 08/16/2022, 19:50
By: Nicole Kalenda
A Kraillinger (48) must now answer in court for dangerous bodily harm in combination with serious bodily harm.
© Sigi Jantz
The victim will never be able to run his car rental company again.
The damage suffered by the 44-year-old in May last year when the Kraillinger Z. attacked him in Planegg is too serious.
The public prosecutor's office, however, moved away from the original charge of attempted manslaughter.
Planegg
– The process has been heard at the Munich I Regional Court since mid-June.
The 48-year-old Z. has so far had to answer for attempted manslaughter.
On Whit Monday 2021, Kraillinger inflicted a severe craniocerebral trauma on his alleged rival, R., who lives in Switzerland, in a dispute in a beauty salon in Planegg, his wife's workplace (we reported).
R. is a joint plaintiff in the proceedings.
Part of skull bone removed
At the instigation of his lawyer, Jan Remi, professor of neurology, senior physician at the Großhadern Clinic and head of the assessment center there, appeared in court on Tuesday as an expert.
R. was admitted to the hospital after the fact.
Due to the multiple injuries to the brain, he was operated on quickly.
Among other things, a part of the skull bone was removed and a bleeding cleared out.
R. was later transferred to the University Clinic in Zurich, from where he came to rehabilitation.
Comprehensive speech disorder
Jan Remi assessed R. on August 1st and 8th of this year, first without and then with an Albanian interpreter.
In the foreground was the severe brain damage.
Remi spoke in court of a "formal thinking disorder".
R. is restricted to certain content, the memory is bad.
"He couldn't remember a single word out of 20." R. was "disinhibited and loud".
Remi certified that he had a comprehensive speech disorder.
The interpreter confirmed that his vocabulary in Albanian was also very limited.
A short test showed a language level of 65 percent of an average citizen.
Significant improvements are not expected
In addition, there were olfactory disorders, arithmetic weaknesses and now also epilepsy as a result of the attack.
Prof. Remi: "He will have epilepsy for the rest of his life." Significant improvements in his condition are not to be expected.
"The vocabulary is getting a little better, the memory isn't." Remi spoke of brain damage with neuropsychological deficits, concentration deficits, formal memory disorders, aphasia and arithmetic disorders.
"He lost a large part of his brain." To support this, Remi showed MRI images on which "substantial damage to the brain in areas that are functional" were marked by white areas.
Black spots marked bleeding.
Damage of at least 70 percent
Regarding the degree of damage, which can range from zero to 100, the expert said: "At least 70, probably 80." He considers R. to be "generally employable with a certain hourly rate", but no longer able to manage his business.
Jörg Sklebitz, the defendant's lawyer, asked if Remi would notice "if something was faked".
The neurologist confirmed this: “Even during the conversation, the disturbances were too consistent.
You can't manipulate that."
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Charge amended
The pleadings followed in the afternoon.
The public prosecutor's office moved away from the original charge of attempted manslaughter, spoke of dangerous bodily harm in combination with serious bodily harm and demanded a sentence of five years and six months.
Timo Westermann, the injured party's lawyer, demanded six years and six months.
The defendant's lawyer, Jörg Sklebzik, suggested three years as a sentence (detailed report follows).
The verdict will be announced next Friday, August 19th.
