By Karin Hendrich
In front of the 13-year-old daughter, Demir A. (44, Bulgarian) stabbed his partner Rositsa (41) in the chest. The child intervened, preventing a second, perhaps fatal, stab.
The concrete worker sat in front of the district court on Thursday like a heap of misery. Sniffled, sobbed, cried, “I hope you can forgive me.”
October 22, 2022, the day of action. “The day started at dawn. I had hardly slept …” begins his confession. His wife had thrown him out a month earlier. The alcohol was to blame. And his outbursts of aggression. He had recently lost his job.
He slept on the street or at a friend’s house. he suffered. Especially with the separation from his wife and daughters (13, 16). “I drank even more to make my sorrow fade away.” Sometime after hours he had drunk so much “that any sense of time was gone.”
Shortly before midnight he rang her doorbell in Neukölln. “I didn’t know that my wife had gotten an eviction notice from the police.” So he should stay away.
Demir A. pushed into the apartment and found out: The older daughter wasn’t home yet. “She’s at a difficult age…” He got angry because his wife tolerated it. “But I was worried.” A fight ensued. “You have nothing more to say here,” Rositsa threw at him. And: “Piss off…”
He lost control of himself, throwing objects from the cupboard around him. Rositsa also got loud. “I bent down to collect things from the ground again.” When Rositsa approached him. “It happened so quickly. I panicked. I apparently stabbed her with the knife I had picked up. It was an accident! I never wanted to hurt her. And then suddenly there was my youngest.”
The girl dragged the father away from the badly injured mother. Doctors saved her life with an emergency operation. So he “only” has to answer for dangerous bodily harm and not for a homicide.
The accused: “How could I drink so much that I lost control.” Somehow he was even happy to be in prison “to get away from alcohol.”
Continued: Thursday (April 27)