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Unsavory details have now been heard in the trial at the Landshut regional court against the alleged arsonist (57) from Eching.
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Unsavory details have now been heard in the trial at the Landshut regional court against the alleged arsonist (57) from Eching.
Witnesses reported the 57-year-old's unusual behavior on the second day of the trial.
Eching/Landshut
– A neighbor reported to the district court that there were always piles of feces in front of the apartment doors in the apartment building.
The 64-year-old had the alleged dog feces examined by her veterinarian - with the result that it was human excrement.
There was no evidence, said the witness, but when asked about it, the “strange man” told her “that he even had a sausage in the freezer.”
Other insults, threats, fistfights and sexual harassment, in which the defendant was always involved, also shaped the climate in the house.
According to reports, the 57-year-old was particularly interested in one neighbor;
Among other things, he had repeatedly insulted the man from Pakistan as “Kanake”.
The defendant's version
At the beginning of the trial, the defendant vehemently denied that it was he who set the fire in front of the neighbor's apartment on the night of August 7, 2022.
As reported, the painter has to answer before the first criminal chamber for two counts of attempted murder and particularly serious arson.
According to the prosecution, he started a fire in front of the couple's apartment around 1:30 a.m. by, among other things, pouring accelerant on the apartment door, a doormat and a T-shirt and setting it on fire.
He placed additional pieces of textile on the window sills of two windows that were next to the door and set them on fire as well.
On the first day of the trial (we reported), the 57-year-old gave a different, bizarre version: According to this, the couple set fire to their apartment themselves and then “blamed him for it”.
The couple was woken up in time by the noise of the smoke alarm and a window bursting and escaped with minor injuries.
The damage to the apartment amounted to around 14,000 euros.
According to a detective, no accelerant was found on the defendant;
The painter hasn't wanted to use turpentine for years.
During the witness interview, the police officer saw the defendant as “fidgety and jittery”.
The 57-year-old offered to look around his apartment, the officer said in court.
“I didn’t even know why.”
Aversion to neighbors
The injured party, in turn - who has lived in Germany for decades - reported to him that the defendant had often made racist comments to him.
In addition, tires on his car have been slashed and a window smashed in the past.
“He simply had an aversion to his neighbors,” said the 64-year-old when asked about the relationship between the injured party and the accused.
The gait and look of the injured party were enough for the defendant to feel provoked.
He once told her that a few of his friends in Neufahrn would be happy to “give it a real polish.”
The witness stated that she was originally friends with the 57-year-old.
Then he became sexually assaultive.
Once, according to the witness, he lay in her bed against her will and had to be taken out of the apartment by neighbors using physical force.
The 64-year-old justified the fact that she had since gotten involved with the defendant again with a kind of psychological terror to which she had been exposed.
The defendant “tyrannized her to such an extent that I thought it would be better to ally with your enemy.”
The trial continues on January 25th.
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