Alban H. gave his former partner 15 stabs in the neck and upper body with a knife on the street in Moosach in mid-March 2021. The life of Galina M. (Name changed) was hanging by a thread. But she survived because two men in a car took her to the Third Order Hospital quickly enough. The Munich I regional court sentenced Alban H. to 14 years in prison for the knife attack in February last year. It was clear to the court: It was an attempted murder committed out of treachery.
The public prosecutor then appealed against this decision to the Federal Court of Justice. She demanded that a higher prison sentence be imposed on Alban H. With success. Since last week, the 41-year-old has had to appear again before another jury at the Munich I Regional Court. In his plea on Wednesday, prosecutor Daniel Meindl called for, as expected, a life sentence to be imposed on Alban H.
According to Meindl, the defendant stabbed his former partner out of “anger, annoyance and disappointment that she no longer returned his love.” Although Galina M. had already ended the relationship, he did not want to come to terms with it, said the prosecutor. Alban H. did not just commit an attempted murder out of treachery. He was also guided by particularly despicable, i.e. base, motives. The first court did not list this additional feature of the murder in its verdict and justified this by saying that Alban H. had remained silent and therefore no motive for the crime could be identified.
H’s defense attorney, lawyer Christina Keil, and her colleague Jürgen Hadinger, however, requested a prison sentence of 14 years. Hadinger said in his plea that he considered it “absurd” to assume that his client had stabbed out of “spurned love.” His behavior towards Galina M. before the knife attack speaks against this.
The mother of one daughter is still suffering from the consequences of the crime to this day. She has numbness in her neck and face and has limited motor skills. She has to take painkillers every day, suffers from depression and is still unable to work. A verdict in the trial is expected this Thursday.