The defendant misjudges his situation.

Nuri T. presented his view of things to the court for a good two hours.

At best, it was roughly comprehensible for more than two consecutive sentences.

No wonder the chamber, the two prosecutors and the co-prosecutor have many questions about the oddities and contradictions.

But no matter how persistently T. liked to hear himself talk, he couldn't bear to be questioned, jumped out of his skin, got loud, started asking counter-questions in a "What do you want from me" tone.

"I'm going to ask the questions here!", the otherwise calm presiding judge, Holger Jung, made clear in a sharp tone.

The message still doesn't seem to get through.

He has been in custody for eight months now, the accused exclaims.

Dry, Jung returns:

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Political correspondent in North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Together with a second perpetrator who has not yet been identified, the 42-year-old Belgian citizen Nuri T. is said to have ambushed the then Innogy manager Bernhard Günther in Haan near Düsseldorf while he was jogging on March 4, 2018 and poured highly concentrated sulfuric acid over his head.

Günther suffered severe chemical burns and had to endure countless operations.

Through an anonymous tip, the investigators got on the trail of Nuri T. That the slight man, who led an unsteady life between odd jobs and undeclared work as a car mechanic in Belgium and almost every evening in brothels in the Rhineland, is not the mastermind behind the insane attack, but a small one figure in the milieu seems to be just as obvious as his direct involvement in the crime.

At the scene of the crime in Haan, investigators were able to secure a DNA trace from Nuri T.

She found herself in a black glove slipped over the discarded jar that had contained the sulfuric acid.

On Monday, Nuri T. initially emphasized that he had never worn black gloves in his life.

He always repairs cars with white gloves or work gloves.

He then puts it on record that his car was broken into in front of the brothel where he had helped out from time to time, and the thieves may have taken gloves with them.

In addition, a brothel operator asked him at the beginning of 2018 to only operate the slot machines set up in the establishment with gloves.

“My DNA was misused.” Nuri T whispers that a brothel is a good place to steal DNA. “I was implicated in something I didn't do.

I've never been to Haan, I don't know the victim, I've never met the man in my life."

The presiding judge opens the electronic file.

A shot of Nuri T's left foot appears on the screens in the courtroom. There is a large wound on the instep that looks like it hurts like hell.

Just at the beginning of March 2018, T. put them on.

Prosecutors believe it is a chemical burn that occurred when T. poured the sulfuric acid over the energy manager.

Nuri T., on the other hand, insists that he was injured while working in the car workshop at home in Belgium, and that a soot particle filter fell on his foot.

At first the spot turned red.

When an open wound developed, he went to the ambulance and his family doctor.

"I wouldn't go to the doctor if I had done something illegal," says T., who has long had another explanation ready:

Maybe someone in the brothel put something in his shoe.

He's just the scapegoat.

The accused got very snotty again when the public prosecutor confronted him with the version he told the Belgian authorities after his arrest: a shelf had fallen over in the workshop and various things had fallen on his foot, including a liquid.

"Didn't you just say something about a soot filter?"

On Friday, the court wants to hear an expert on the violation.

It is not yet clear when Bernhard Günther will be able to take the stand.

His statement, which was actually planned for Monday, had to be postponed at short notice because he was infected with Corona.