Swiss police guilty of wounding Kosovo wanted for theft

It was a rainy evening of May 2016. A cantonal policeman in Ossingen of the Zürcher Wayland region had shot three times through the driver's window, over a man sitting in his car.

The police had done so, thinking that he was the wanted thief, what one local resident had announced.

As it turned out, the gunman had indeed been the wanted thief, a Kosovo citizen who was later deported to Kosovo.

From police bullets he has suffered severe injuries on the left arm and since then his hand has been partially paralyzed, writes Tages Anzeiger.

In the trial before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, the woman who continues to work in the Cyril Canton police, has not wanted to make a statement on the incident. The 36-year-old moved to work in the office for two years after the indictment.

She, in September 2020, was sentenced to a conditional fine sentence by the Andelfingen District Court, broadcasting albinfo.ch. His sentence was pronounced serious bodily damage by carelessness. Thereafter, both the Public Prosecutor and the defense had moved the decision to the highest court.

The alleged “has wrongly reacted” has been expressed in the process. “It has shot although it has not been attacked or threatened” Also, she was unaware of a thief at the moment of control.

The police were supposed to have ordered the suspect to stay in the car while they themselves were waiting for backup.

The prosecutor has sought a partial three-year prison sentence for deliberately attempted murder, of which the police had to serve an effective year in prison.

Kosovar now 41, a window mounter, cannot bend and run his left arm. “He was shot to maim”, his legal representative said.

And the police attorney has demanded her full release. His client met the suspected thief in the vicinity of the crime scene and “she knew exactly that it was the thief who was looking for”.

Just as the lowest court (of the district) acquitted the police of deliberately attempted murder, but convicted him of serious bodily harm due to negligence.

There was no reason to use the gun. The driver (Kosovar) has behaved co-operatively. You misjudged the situation”, the judge said.

The fact that the police have been sentenced to a parole fine of 360 teachers from 80 francs and not in prison is also connected to the time of five and a half years of the proceedings, the judge added further.