Kassel (dpa/lhe) – In the trial against a 49-year-old, who is said to have killed his wife in Bad Arolsen in northern Hesse, with at least 30 stab wounds, the verdict is expected on Wednesday (1.30 p.m.). The man has to answer for murder before the district court in Kassel.
The public prosecutor’s office accuses him of having acted out of base motives. Accordingly, the Iraqi is said to have lived strictly according to Muslim principles. According to the prosecutor, his 32-year-old wife, on the other hand, lived a modern lifestyle and wanted the separation. He took that as an insult. Even before the crime, the accused had repeatedly threatened to kill his wife.
On July 19 last year, he is said to have put the threats into action in the shared apartment in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district. According to the public prosecutor’s office, he stabbed the victim at least 30 times with a knife – in front of the five children between the ages of one and eleven.
At the start of the trial, the accused had testified that there had previously been an argument between him and his wife. He couldn’t remember the act itself.