Swiss police who injured Kosovo face trial, that's how much it can be punished

A Cantonal policeman is responding to Cyril's (Cantonal) Supreme Court for deliberately attempted assassinations.

It was a rainy evening of May 2016, which broadcasts albinfo.ch. 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.

The prosecutor has already accused the 36-year-old police of deliberately attempted murder and has sought a three-year prison sentence from which she must serve an effective year in prison.

The indictment was acquitted of this indictment by the District Court in Andelfingen in September 2020, but was sentenced to a fine on bail for serious bodily damage from carelessness, albinfo.ch records. The police had claimed to have acted in self-defense.

She said the thief was carrying a gun when she asked him out. For this reason, her lawyer has sought release for his client.

For the district court mentioned, police shooting was an excessive reaction. The court has entrusted her explanation that she felt threatened, but it has concluded that she had violated the principle that forced her as a policeman to show proper care on that occasion.

Even the public prosecution and the defence have postponed the trial further, and the case has reached the Zurich High Court on Tuesday.