absorbed In himself, Klaus O.’s sitting on the dock. From his narrow shoulders, a faded blue sweater. His face is without emotion, his gaze on the light brown of the wooden floor of the hall in the Bielefeld district court of stapled. From time to time he straightens his glasses, or driving with the Hand over the beard that is rampant since the beginning of his detention for six months on his cheeks.
The public Prosecutor’s office accuses Klaus O. Incredible. The 57-Year-old is said to have mixed over the years in his house poison the Lunches of his colleagues sprinkled.
With a loud voice, state’s attorney, Veit, Walter reads the indictment. The alleged Motivation for the alleged poison attacks between March 2015 and may 2018, leaves the audience cringe. Therefore, the father of two O. h, as in the case of his unsuspecting Victims through the addition of chemicals, such as lead acetate, Cadmium and mercury, a slow contagion set in.
It was gone, “to see how his colleagues before his eyes slowly to physical well-being will be forfeited, and due to the nature of the intoxication, pain and suffering,” Prosecutor Walter. “Insidious and cruel”, had acted, etc. The defendant must answer, among other things, due to severe and dangerous bodily injury, and attempted murder in ten cases.
dialysis, coma
His former foreman is said to have poisoned. o. five times so hard that he had to be treated for anaemia, stomach cramps, and bleeding multi-stationary. In March 2018, his kidneys eventually failed. Meanwhile, the 56-Year-old three times a week on dialysis.
Nick N., another colleague, just 24 years old, suffers from a apallischen syndrome. His brain is severely damaged. He is in the house of his parents in a coma, unconscious, arms and legs without function, nursing Care for life. Him. o. is supposed to have in the summer of 2016 mercury smeared on bread, the poison he had obtained according to the investigation on the Internet. As N. came to the hospital, were the Doctors for mercury poisoning in Germany is rare. The drugs were allegedly to be from abroad Gencobahis flew in.
The alleged scene of the crime is Brought to the break room for a valve manufacturer with 800 employees in lock-Stukenbrock, a small town 20 kilometers from Bielefeld. O. worked there as a locksmith in production, 38 years of service he had. He was a loner, one who want to greet the colleagues often don’t even have to ask after the health of the loved one to be avoided, is reported in addition to lawsuit-attorney Ralph Niemeier, who represents Simon R., one of the three Victims.
R. in this process will be the key witness because on his evidence. was taken in may 2018. Two years earlier, R. presented at a slow drop in performance. The poison to him, Klaus O. in the lounge on sausage and jam sandwiches scattered, gradually his kidneys, which, according to his lawyer irreparably damaged.
In the spring of this year, the impurities fell to the 26-year-old machinist finally on his bread topping. Henceforth, he was careful how he prepared in the morning at home bread. But again, he noted when unpacking the sandwiches in the break of the strange tracks. He alerted company management and the works Council, which ruled an Installation of a video camera. Klaus O. flew on.
“If ever there was treachery, then in this case,”
according to The investigation, he was observed with the help of the camera, as he stole the Tupperware box from the pocket of his colleagues, from a vial of a substance to break bread sprinkled and restore it back in the bag grabbed. Shortly thereafter, the police suggested that the officers arrested him at work, in his pocket, they found acetate, a vial of highly toxic lead.
Visibly upset Simon R. followed the reading of the indictment. Previously, he was a great athlete, was running in a team Marathon, and now he hold no, two kilometers more, says lawyer Niemeier. His client, to testify at the next hearing, not only physically, but also mentally hard hit. “The question of why his colleague has done the thing that demoralized him. The work is a protected space with something no one could expect. “If ever there was treachery in this case.”
The homicide threw in their investigations and a close look into the history of the cases of death and disease the company in East Westphalia and has made 21 more suspected cases. How many people O. poison may be, or even killed, will probably never be clarified. So far, Klaus has been silent. Also a statement to the court is considered to be unlikely.
