When Hanna R. (25, name changed) separated from him after a year and a half of love, he went crazy. Attacked her in her yoga studio: wanted to kill her. The student survived with serious injuries.
Because of attempted insidious murder and dangerous bodily harm, Oliver G. (41) has to go to jail for nine years. “He acted with direct intent to kill,” the judge Montag said in her verdict.
At the end of the relationship, Hanna R.* was no longer able or willing to deal with his psychological problems. “She needed more distance. He didn’t accept the limits. A fatal spiral ensued.” Hanna R. then completely broke off contact.
“At that moment at the latest he started thinking about how he could kill her.”
On June 12, 2021, Oliver G. was waiting in Thaerstraße (Friedrichshain) in front of the yoga studio where she taught as a teacher. The course participants had left and Hanna R. had also packed up her things and wanted to turn off the light from the floor lamp, “when he grabbed her hair from behind and stabbed her in the upper body”.
A lengthy struggle ensued. She struggled desperately, screaming… The knife fell to the ground. When he tried to pull a second one out of his backpack, she managed to escape into the street. He followed with a kind of cleaver. The fight continued on the sidewalk. Oliver G. gave his ex further injuries to his head, neck, chest, back… Under the eyes and shouts of many passers-by. Hanna R.’s resistance became weaker and weaker. The pool of blood she was lying in was getting bigger and bigger.
The judge: “We are firmly convinced that the accused assumed that she was dying.” The judge interpreted his claim that after two beers his memory was suspended as a “shameful protective claim.” deed busy.
However, the court believes that he was very desperate. He has “fragile self-esteem” and “fears of abandonment”. The accused then went back to the yoga studio to kill himself.
In the meantime, however, he “takes something like guilt on himself”, declared himself willing to pay the compensation of 25,000 euros set by the court.
Hanna R., joint plaintiff in the process, is not only reminded of what happened by the lasting scars on her body. She still has trouble falling asleep and concentrating.
*Name changed