BERLIN, Jun 1 Berlin court sentenced to five years imprisonment of a Georgian citizen who, in a fit of passion, killed his Ukrainian wife, who arrived in Germany as a refugee, according to the court, the man’s condition was affected by living conditions in the country and uncoordinated expenses of his wife, Bild reports.
According to the publication, on Wednesday, the Berlin Regional Court announced the verdict to Georgian citizen Edisher D., who on October 22, 2022 killed his Ukrainian wife Elena with a knife in a housing container for refugees in Alt-Hoenschönhausen in front of their daughter and stepdaughter . The man was sentenced to five years in prison, although the prosecution demanded 10 years.
“The action took place in extremely tight containers. There was a role reversal. Elena had money, and he was forced to ask her every time he needed them. He was in a state of passion and did not see a way out of the situation,” leads Bild Judge's rationale for a lenient sentence.
According to the man's defense, before leaving for Germany, he lived with his wife in Kharkov, where he was the sole breadwinner of the family and worked as a truck driver, earning $1,400. In Berlin, the roles changed: a bank account was opened in the name of his wife, where state benefits paid to refugees from Ukraine came. Since the man could not open an account due to his citizenship, the payments due to him also came to the name of his wife.
““During the three and a half months they spent together in Berlin, they had more than once quarrels about this money. While his wife bought expensive clothes, she did not even give Edisher money for a haircut. crime, he asked her to give him at least half of the 1,800 euros that the German state transferred to her account for him, in order to return to Georgia with this money after the rupture of relations. When she refused, he committed a crime, «according to the accused. The convict also claimed that his wife repeatedly called him Russian swear words that degrade man's dignity.
The decision of the court was influenced not only by the recognition that the accused was in a state of passion, but also by his remorse. According to the forensic psychiatrist, the man is unlikely to be capable of repeated serious crimes.