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Siegen (dpa / lnw) - In the murder trial against a man who is said to have killed his three-year-old son in a cruel manner, the prosecution has called for life imprisonment.
In front of the Siegen district court, the public prosecutor spoke on Friday of an insidious murder and a particular gravity of guilt.
She accuses the 34-year-old of first strangling the little boy in his apartment in Lennestadt in May, then laying him on a mattress and setting it on fire.
His son was still alive at the time of the fire.
The defense of the man from Morocco also stated that they consider life imprisonment to be appropriate.
One does not see any mitigating reasons.
The murder characteristic of treachery is fulfilled, but not that of cruelty.
The defendant was certain that his son was already dead when he set him on fire.
The life of the boy's mother and other relatives was also destroyed, said a representative of the secondary prosecution.
According to the opinion of a psychiatric expert, the accused is culpable.
He expressed remorse on Friday that he was "terribly sorry" for his actions.
He was under enormous pressure to have his child taken away from him.
He lived separated from the mother of the child.
The verdict is expected on December 18th.