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Munich (dpa / lby) - In the sensational Munich murder trial of two women who had disappeared without a trace, the public prosecutor is demanding life imprisonment for the accused.
In addition, the particular gravity of the guilt should be determined.
The 46-year-old is accused of killing his wife in an argument in July 2019 and then killing his stepdaughter.
"She was only 16 years old," said public prosecutor Daniel Meindl on Wednesday at the district court in Munich I. "She still had her whole life ahead of her."
The German-Russian is charged with manslaughter and murder, even if his alleged victims were never found despite an intensive search - especially in a forest area in the east of Munich.
"Only the defendant knows why they both had to die and where their corpses are."
The defendant has denied in court that he had anything to do with the disappearance of his wife and stepdaughter.
The public prosecutor's office assumes, however, that the man killed the two women one after the other “most likely through massive, blunt violence against the head”.
After that, according to the indictment, he drove to a hardware store, bought paint and painted walls.
He also removed a living room rug and doormat from the hallway.
The police later found this - smeared with the blood of the two alleged victims - in a forest.
They are the main clues in the murder trial without a body.
In the end, the public prosecutor addressed the defendant once more and asked him to indicate where the bodies were after the proceedings were over.
"That is the only positive thing you can still do in this case - for the bereaved and also for yourself."
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