Construction worker guilty of murder of brother-in-law

Lanaken The otherwise quiet construction worker Mariusz M. (53) put on 28 February 2017, his brother-in-law Dominik Szambelan (31) death on the business in Lanaken, where the two Poles worked. An overkill of knife wounds, clearly intended to kill. But, however provoked, argued the defense. The jury did not and condemned Mariusz for murder. “He had the crime for the eyes and has also effectively carried out.”

The jury ruled that Mariusz, without a doubt, the intention was not to be his brother-in-law Dominik on February 28, 2017 to kill, when he him with ten knife wounds neerstak. It was no accident. “The combination of the sharp assault by use of the knife as a deadly weapon and with great force, purposive infliction of the stab wounds in vital areas of the body can not otherwise be explained than that the intention to kill the top priority was,” was the justification.

According to the jury, acted in the fifties also, certainly intentionally. They made it to the instant messages that Mariusz the evening for the facts to his daughter sent. And the carving knife that he especially took to the work, while a souped-up tension. “He chased the victim with the carving knife in the hand and has him then with great force, the fatal knife wounds inflicted in the most vital parts of the body.”

Of incitement was not the case, shut the jury off. He was agitated, but that should not make him have prevented to think as a reasonable person. “He does not make it plausible that he was provoked by severe acts of violence against his person. Anyway, it is used by him violence is not in proportion with the alleged acts of violence, both physically and mentally.”

prosecutor Patrick Boyen had in his requistoir also hammered on the intentionally plan Mariusz. ‘The chronicle of a foretold murder " is what he called the case. “After those first stitches in the van, where Mariusz is clearly the attacker and not the defender, he had to stop it. But he did not. Witnesses saw how Dominik then wegvluchtte. Stumbling for his life, while he is stabbed in the back by his attacker. They saw how Mariusz then with his knee on him, sat down and him multiple times in the chest crossed. Dominik's cold-blooded massacred.” The message that Mariusz the evening for the facts to his daughter sent was according to the prosecutor's office also decisive. If I kill him, then you are still mine to keep. Yes, of course I will do that, smiley. “That is not just a Polish expression. The message shows clearly that the planning for Dominik to kill clear was the evening for the facts and the next morning was also carried out.”