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| The Serb covering his head with his sweatshirt accompanied by a Swiss policeman |
The Supreme Court upheld the decision of the lower court in its entirety. A girl believed she had been raped 140 times by her father. It is the 44-year-old Serbian man who has been sentenced to ten years in prison by the Supreme Court today, according to the Swiss newspaper Le Canton27.ch, citing sources from the Winterthur District Court.
The court asks: Did the Serbian start assaulting his own daughter when she was 16, sometimes in Switzerland and sometimes during vacations in Serbia?
For a year, he regularly raped his daughter when she was sixteen and a half. The man denied the crime, and his lawyer sought compensation and damages of CHF 630,000, local media say.
According to Le Canton27.ch, the accusations are scandalous: The 44-year-old taxi driver and painter is accused of repeatedly raping his 16-and-a-half-year-old daughter during a vacation in Serbia in March 2018. Even after returning to Winterthur, he continued to sexually abuse her regularly for a year, about 140 times, according to the indictment.
The Winterthur District Court sentenced the man to ten years in prison and 15 years of internment in November 2021. In doing so, the court went beyond the prosecutor's request for eight years for incest, rape, sexual assault, and other crimes.
The accused appealed the verdict, and the case was heard in the Supreme Court on Wednesday. "I am innocent; everything is fabricated," he said when asked by the judge. He wants to know why his daughter had to make up the accusations. "I was strict in my upbringing and didn't take enough care of her. I also had a relationship with my sister-in-law." This poisoned the atmosphere in the family. A plot was created against him. "Your former boyfriend and my now-divorced wife manipulated you to get rid of me."
The 44-year-old traveled to his family in Winterthur in 2015 without telling authorities that he had a criminal record for rape in his home country and had been in prison for 3.5 years in Germany for involvement in a bank robbery.
His lawyer asked for his release as well as compensation and compensation of around CHF 630,000 for the three-year pre-trial detention and preventive detention. There is a lack of physical evidence, although it is said that the victim was raped 140 times - an absurd extrapolation." Neither the mother nor the younger sister in the same family noticed, even though the incidents allegedly occurred over a year. "This is not possible," said the defense.