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The Dietikon District Court convicted a 73-year-old retiree who seriously injured a woman with a garden hose. She had previously caught him urinating wildly.
The man, who had to appear in Dietikon district court on Wednesday, describes himself as a troublemaker.
One afternoon in July 2019, a 73-year-old Swiss retiree urinated on a hedge on a public street in Dietikon. Behind the hedge, a woman was weeding in her garden. At first he tried words to stop the man from doing what he was doing. Since that did not help, he took a garden hose and splashed the man with water, as the prosecution later stated in the indictment.
After that, the retiree turned violent. He struck the woman in the face several times, ripped the garden hose from her, wrapped it around her forearm, and struck the woman’s head and torso several times with the end, which had a hard plastic nozzle, like a whip. .
He suffered a multiple fracture of the nose, a tear in the root of the nose, a contusion of the left zygomatic arch and a hematoma in the left eye. He was unable to work 100 percent for five days, suffered insomnia for at least six months, and had difficulty distinguishing between left and right.
Self defense without a lawyer
The case will be heard this Wednesday before the Dietikon District Court. The pensioner shows up for the appointment without a lawyer. The prosecutor had requested a suspended prison sentence of eight months and a fine of 2,500 francs for simple bodily injury with a dangerous object. He frankly admits that he peed in the hedge, but many other things are not true and are lies. He did not hit the woman.
The woman he didn’t know came up to him and said, “You don’t have to go to my garden.” He made it clear that it was a public reason. Then he wiped it off with the hose. “She has no right to cum on me!” The retiree enthuses. So it was “boring” and “only in 200”. He took the garden hose and also washed the woman “top to bottom”. He no longer knows what he did next.
According to the accused, the woman lies because she feels that she can get rich financially with him. “But as long as I live, the screw won’t rust, I guarantee it.” The sole judge Benedikt Hoffmann responds that the woman has no special financial demands apart from her medical expenses. And the injuries are registered.
Childhood as a contracting child
Life taught him not to put up with anything, continues the old man. On questioning, he describes his difficult childhood as a contract boy when he and his brother were “sold” to a farmer in Thurgau. In winter, they would have put their cold feet in fresh cow manure to warm themselves up again. He later interrupted his apprenticeship as a poster painter, learned to be a hairdresser, and took taxi, truck, and car exams. In the 1970s he was a truck driver in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.
However, at the age of 49, all IDs were taken from him after an accident because he has not felt a foot since. Later he never returned to work and at times he also received social assistance. Today he only lives on 1,500 francs AHV and supplementary benefits. You won’t pay a fine and go to jail for it.
During the lull in the trial, the defendant voluntarily gave interviews to tabloid journalists and led them to the crime scene.
“Like if it was the most normal thing in the world”
Later, the sole judge convicted the 73-year-old man with no criminal record for simple bodily harm with a dangerous object. Regarding the sanction, however, it goes far beyond the prosecutor’s request, although it took into account the defendant’s childhood, and imposes the maximum penalty that is possible in a single judicial proceeding: a 12-month conditional prison sentence . In addition, there is a fine of 1,500 francs so that the defendant can feel something immediately. The man also has to pay 4,500 francs in court costs and another 1,500 francs in court costs. Also, you are generally liable for damages. However, the amount of compensation must be determined by civil procedure.
During the oral justification of the sentence, the accused constantly makes comments and interrupts the judge. The latter says that the pensioner’s statements were “implausible.” That he did not want to see how the woman was injured is alien to life. There is no reason why the woman should testify incorrectly.
It fits perfectly into the picture that the defendant can’t stand anything, as he said at the hearing. The whole story began with urinating on public property, which was prohibited, the judge said. – But that’s none of your business, shouts the accused. – The court will also denounce him for this previously unpunished violation, says sole judge Hoffmann.
The response of the accused at the crime scene is not proportional to what happened before, explains the judge. The pensioner eventually inflicted the serious injuries on the woman for no reason, “as if it were the most normal thing in the world to hit people with a garden hose.”
The retiree, who called himself a “troublemaker” to journalists during the trial lull, told the judge that he would pay nothing. You also don’t need the written verdict. “You can throw it in the shredder!” He refuses to accept the role. “You can do whatever you want, I don’t care,” he yells. And then he says to the judge on leaving: “You have to be careful!” He asks what he thinks, but the defendant doesn’t answer anymore.
Sentence GG200030 of October 14, 2020, not yet legally binding.
