Trial begins for Kosovo to kill wife, sister-in-law

The hearing is set to take four days.

The initially published prosecution indictment practically does not provide details about the accused and the victims.

The defendant is in custody, broadcasts albinfo.ch. The victims are his 38-year-old wife and 31-year-old sister, both from Albania.

The public prosecutor has sought life imprisonment for multiple murders, or, eventually, a prison sentence of 20 years for more than one murder, committed deliberately.

After the suffering of the sentence, it must be expelled from the country for 15 years and this should be introduced into the Schengen Information System (SIS). Which means it will be blocked for the entire Schengen zone.

The woman sought divorce

According to the prosecutor, the wife had reported her husband's domestic violence about a year before the murder. Apparently she was tired of his outbursts of violence, insults and his controlling, restrictive behavior. So she wanted to pee.

According to the indictment, such a thing would have financial disadvantages for the husband.

He could thus lose custody over children, and also lose his face within the family and society”. So he intended to prevent divorce.

Because he also suspected that his wife was betraying him, he had secretly installed a mobile phone in a hiding place in her car always according to the indictment. Through the tracking app, he now observed where his wife was going. He had also driven to these places to make sure that he was not mistaken.

On December 30, 2017, he discovered that the woman was meeting in an uninhabited house a man he knew. On the eve of New Year's Eve, the woman, on the pretext of going to pick up her sister after the break of her car, had gone to a club. And on the afternoon of January 6, she had again written in the house mentioned, empty, for a meeting.

On Monday, January 8, 2018, when the children were leaving for the first day of school after Christmas break, the accused killed his wife, who was still in bed, hitting her with a long and sharp knife twice on the upper part of the body.

Then he stabbed even the sister-in-law who spent the night in the children's room. By doing so, he had eliminated “an annoying and hated witness, as his wife's ally”, the prosecutor writes.

He then placed a kitchen knife in his hand and stabbed himself, thus insinuating an attack on women or an act of self - defense.

After the crime, he has brought money to the neighbor for the children and has asked his eldest son from his first marriage to care for the children. Then he called his lawyer to call the police. The police arrested him the same day.

Brugg County Court is conducting trial for murders under increased security measures, at a hall in Hausen. The process was pushed through a brief announcement in November: One person from the ranks of the participating parties was tested positively for Covid-19.