August 28, 2021, 2 p.m., Obertshausen suburban railway station. A disappointed husband takes extreme brutal revenge on his separated wife in public. With a meat cleaver, Sohil A. almost chopped off both lower legs and the left forearm of the 45-year-old woman. Since yesterday, the 59-year-old has had to answer for this before the jury of the Darmstadt Regional Court. The charge is attempted murder.
“I wanted to disfigure her, but not kill her. I wanted to take away her beauty. I am very sorry,” the man from Nieder-Roden said via his defence lawyer Hans Georg Kaschel. He said that they were ready for a settlement between the perpetrator and the victim. In view of the severe injuries and consequential damages, the words seem rather trivial and hard to believe. The mother of two adult sons spent nine months in hospital. Only the intervention of a couple and an emergency operation saved her life and limbs. Even today, she cannot use her left hand properly and can only move with the help of a walker and wheelchair. It is uncertain whether the symptoms of the attack will ever disappear. The wife is a joint plaintiff in the trial, but does not want to face the perpetrator. Her interrogation will therefore soon be conducted via live video transmission.
Neither alcohol nor drugs are said to have had any influence on the attack. In order to clarify the mental state and the culpability of the accused, a psychiatric expert will be consulted.
The first marital break took place in 2020 for several months. Afterwards, however, the 45-year-old moved back into their shared flat in Nieder-Roden. In spring 2021, they finally separated. She moved into a women’s shelter, he stayed. A court order under the Protection Against Violence Act forbade the Syrian to approach the wife more than 50 metres.
“I met them both in the refugee home in 2015, saw them as a normal couple,” recalls a 47-year-old friend of the victim, “But she also told me that he was very jealous and that she was hardly allowed out of the house. She felt locked up.” Again and again she said she was afraid of him. He would threaten her and had already smashed a mirror. Once, the girlfriend witnessed an incident: “There was a fight between the two of them at my house. He took a couple of small knives in the kitchen and threatened to drag her out. She fought back. No one was hurt.” A neighbour had tried to mediate. The girlfriend says : “He is actually a good person. Just the two of them together, that’s not possible!” At the hospital, the injured woman told her that he had bought the cleaver two years ago with the words “I will need this someday”. “We both didn’t take the threats seriously. He did love her,” the witness said.
Public prosecutor Christian Dilg wants to know if there was a reason for jealousy. “I don’t know. I don’t look into her heart,” is the literal translation from Arabic.
The couple’s 27-year-old son confirms the marital problems: “They discussed a lot, never reached an agreement. Sometimes there were fisticuffs, starting from both of them.” The mother had problems keeping to the rules, explaining when and where she was going. She did not tell the truth. He knew nothing about threats from the father. “He must have had a lot on his plate. I am absolutely against this act. I asked him afterwards, ‘Why are you doing this?'” – the son’s statement on the matter sounds hollow rather than sad in translation. He has not been in contact with his mother for a long time – for personal reasons that he does not want to discuss. The trial is scheduled for the beginning of September.
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