A 51-year-old Hattinger was acquitted today of the charge of assault for lack of evidence.
Even the public prosecutor’s representative pleaded at the end of the taking of evidence that the accused should be acquitted. The accusation of the public prosecutor after the criminal complaint filed by the accused’s wife in the main hearing could not be proven.
Lawyer Salewski, who represented the 51-year-old Hattinger, should have been satisfied, especially since, in his opinion, there was not a single suitable proof in the court that his client had assaulted his wife and son and had committed physical injuries.
As part of a family quarrel, the accused is said to have hit his wife with a vacuum cleaner pipe in mid-February 2020 and attacked his son on the head with a vodka bottle the following day, according to the prosecution, because the woman had reported her husband.
The daughter of the injured party is said to have notified the police, who expelled the defendant from the apartment for a few days. A doctor certified the wife’s head and upper arm bruises and injuries to the auricle.
At the main hearing, however, the wife withdrew her allegations against her husband. An interpreter helped them express themselves in German. “We have been together for 29 years, he apologized and I would like to make use of my right to refuse to testify,” the interpreter translated the wife’s statement.
Her daughter also made use of her right to refuse to testify. Only the defendant’s son testified and denied the allegations made by his mother against his father. “Quarrel happens everywhere, but no one was beaten,” said the son and attributed the filing of the criminal complaint to a disturbed relationship between his sister and his father.
In the absence of evidence, the proceedings ended with an acquittal at the expense of the state treasury. Police officers, complaint clerks, public prosecutors and employees of the district court had to do the unnecessary work with it.
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