This trial is a mystery. And it already starts with the name of the defendant.
Because Elias S. (25), who has been standing trial for dangerous bodily harm and drug trafficking at the Dresden District Court since Friday, is not called that at all, but Mohammed.
He is also not from Libya, but from Tunisia. And whether he is married to an Italian woman, as it says in the asylum application under the false name, is also unclear. Elias or Mohammed denies this.
There are not only many questions about the person, but also about the events on Albertplatz square in June 2021, for which Mohammed is on trial, among other things.
According to the indictment, the 25-year-old attacked a man there with a knife, stabbed him three times and seriously injured his victim.
While the accused remains silent on the charges, his victim cannot be questioned. The victim ran away shortly before he was deported. Whereabouts: unknown.
And so only a policewoman called as a witness reported what the victim had said in the hospital on the night of the crime.
The victim’s version was that Mohammed had gone berserk and suddenly attacked him. He did not give a reason. Witnesses, on the other hand, reported that a larger group of people had argued and pushed each other before the knife attack took place.
Pepper spray could also have been used. So the judge has a lot to clarify. The trial will continue.