It was about dominance, power, a drug delivery and also about a girl: Because the 18-year-old Alexander R. had rammed the style of a broken champagne glass into his friend’s throat during a dispute, the native Austrian is now at the Munich District Court I for attempted manslaughter was sentenced to a four-year youth penalty. Judge Bertolt Gedeon stated in his judgment that Alexander R. had a not inconsiderable alcohol and drug problem despite his young age. Therefore, after serving a year in pre-trial detention, R. will spend the next one and a half years in a closed rehab clinic.
When Alexander R. was twelve years old, his parents divorced. He lived with his father in Graz, then with his mother, and finally he moved to an aunt in Innsbruck to begin an apprenticeship as a cook. For him, however, it was the beginning of his addiction career, with false friends and a lot of intoxication. He met Stefan W. during a visit to Munich last year. “They made friends for a purpose,” said Gedeon.
W. knew the city and certain people, Alexander R. had some money. In October R. went on vacation to Munich again. At that time, however, the relationship between them was already tense. Both were interested in the same girl, and the Austrian should have delivered marijuana.
The situation escalated at a party in the Hotel Bento Inn on Stahlgruberring: R. grabbed his friend, pulled him into the bathroom, knocked off a glass and pressed the style against the other’s neck. Then the scramble shifted to the room with the party guests. R. said he did not consciously stab it, it happened in the movement.
The third youth chamber at the regional court, however, assumed a willful stab and intent to kill. The victim could have bleed to death and suffocated, Gedeon said. Stefan W. was saved by an emergency operation. Alexander R. was cool and unimpressed after the fact, played a song in the hotel elevator on the way down and then tried to escape to Austria. The youth chamber did not see a conviction for murder, as formulated in the indictment.