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Mels in the canton of St. Gallen, in the morning hours of February 27, 2022. The eastern Swiss carnival stronghold is in a collective frenzy of joy and alcohol. These are the days of the state of emergency in Sarganserland.
Suddenly a shadow falls over the city. Police cars, ambulances and forensic experts dominate the cityscape. Blue lights and sirens mingle with confetti and Guggen music.
A body was found. It is Salvatore N.* (†45). The Italian was a long-term tenant of Schäfli restaurant, which also rents out rooms. This morning the cantonal police of St. Gallen wrote that a young Swiss man was at the place where the dead man was found. “It is unclear what connection there is to the crime.” Blick was also in Mels SG that day.
Partyed all night in a bunny costume
This young man is Kevin P.*, who was 18 at the time (now 20). The then cantonal student must appear before the Werdenberg-Sarganserland court in Mels from Thursday. For intentional murder, committed in a state of self-inflicted insanity. And this is how the fateful night allegedly happened: P. celebrated carnival all night long in the center of Mels – dressed as a pink bunny.
Shortly before six in the morning he is said to have gone to the second floor of Schäfli. There he entered room 22, where Salvatore N. lived. It is not clear why the young man went there. According to the complaint, the relationship between him and the Italian remains unclear.
With the umbrella stuck in the eyes
In the room, the Italian grabbed “the young adult’s genitals,” as the prosecutor put it. Kevin P. did not want that, made it clear to the Italian and wanted to leave the room.
But 45-year-old “presumed homosexual” Salvatore N. stood in his way, after which a scuffle started in the room and ended in the hallway. The younger Swiss is said to have strangled the Italian and eventually grabbed an umbrella that he happened to find in the hallway.
It is said that he stabbed the pizzaiolo once in each eye with the umbrella. It is said that the umbrella has become stuck in the left visual organ. Salvatore N. was said to have been so seriously injured by the force of the impact that he died from severe traumatic brain injury.
The 20-year-old was too drunk to be guilty
But the Public Prosecution Service’s complaint is irritating. Kevin P., now 20, is said to have lost control over his actions due to his drunkenness. He was “incapable of exercising control.”
The student is said to have had a minimum of 1.21 and a maximum of 2.09 permille in his blood at the time of the umbrella attack. In Swiss case law, a violent perpetrator’s complete inability to control and feelings of guilt are generally only taken into account when a blood alcohol level of 3 per mille is reached. Between two and three per thousand there is only the “presumption of a decrease in mental capacity”.
Very mild punishment required
Leo-Philippe Menzel, spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office in the canton of St. Gallen, said when asked that a psychiatric report from the Psychiatric University Hospital in Zurich concluded that the suspect was completely incompetent at the time of the crime. . “The Public Prosecution Service considers the crime of intentional manslaughter to be fundamentally fulfilled. However, based on the expert’s findings, we are of the opinion that the only possible charge is committing an act while incapacitated, in accordance with Article 263 paragraph 2 of the Criminal Code.
On top of that. The prosecutor’s requests are also surprisingly mild. The indictment does not require therapeutic measures or addiction care. The young man who allegedly killed a person with an umbrella will most likely not go to jail. A prison sentence of 24 months is required – with probation.
Everyone involved remains silent
Blick also asked the private plaintiffs, who are relatives of the deceased Salvatore N., this. However, they did not want to comment on the charges and the lenient sentences for the person who allegedly murdered their family member. However, they are seeking compensatory and punitive damages totaling approximately R800,000.
Likewise, the suspect and his attorney declined to say anything when Blick asked prior to the trial. Kevin P. is presumed innocent.
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Source: Blick
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