By Anne Losensky
A Kreuzberger is said to have sprayed his ex-lover with hydrochloric acid.
Tiergarten district court, call for file number 250 Ls 8/23.
HE is brought to the dock in handcuffs. Roman K. (57) has been waiting behind bars for his trial since February. “My cat is sitting alone in the apartment,” sighs the fitter from Kreuzberg.
SHE sits neatly on the witness chair: Nurse Jolanta W. (63). “We were a couple for three years,” she says, “then I left him. He threatened: I will break your pretty face!”
HE prefers to leave the talking to his lawyer. It was exactly the other way around. The woman threatened the man after the separation with the words: “I’ll take you to jail!”
SHE: “On January 28, 2023 I was on my way to the bus. He caught me. Pulled a small spray bottle out of his jacket, sprayed it in my face. I threw up my arm. That’s the only reason why most of it ended up on my down jacket sleeve. The stuff burned through to the inner lining. I had a blister on my lip, a hacking cough from the noxious fumes. He ran away, I to the police. After that I went to work.”
HE demands release from detention until the next day of the trial: “I have to take care of my cat and my apartment!” The judge refuses: “That’s not enough.”
attack with highly concentrated hydrochloric acid
The jacket has been examined. Result: highly concentrated hydrochloric acid.
According to the indictment, he thus “physically abused his ex by administering poison and damaged her health” and tried to “deliberately permanently disfigure the woman by administering poison in a significant way.”
The district court can impose up to four years in prison – or refer the matter to the regional court, which could go much higher (up to ten years in prison in this case).
Judgment on August 4th.