Janos M. has announced several times that he wants to disfigure his wife. Nobody took him seriously. According to the prosecution, he then poured 3.2 liters of hot oil on his wife’s face. The motif? She wanted to leave him.
Janos M. enters the courtroom as if he were coming to a business meeting. A tall man, blue suit, white shirt, hand in pocket, like people used to wearing suits do. Only the clacking of the ankle cuffs reminds us that he is standing trial as a defendant. M. doesn’t seem to notice. He waves to his family and smiles at a few women who have come to this first day of trial at the Regensburg regional court. They don’t smile back. Maybe you know his wife.