A 47-year-old man has had to answer to the Hanau Regional Court since Wednesday for the murder of his two children.

The accused Jit S. made a confession at the start of the trial: Because of him, his two children died.

He is responsible for the "endless suffering" that this act causes, according to a written statement presented by his defense attorney Stefan Bonn.

The act is inexcusable.

No one can forgive him, so he doesn't ask for forgiveness.

He deeply regrets the bloody deed.

Beyond the written statement, the Indian did not comment on the fact.

He did not want to answer questions from the judges.

Jan Schiefenhoevel

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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The public prosecutor accuses the man of wanting to punish his wife with the murder of his daughter and son because she had separated from him, as public prosecutor Oliver Piechaczek stated in his indictment.

The couple had been married since 2008.

Because of his violent assaults, the woman decided to separate in January last year.

The man wanted to persuade his wife to stay with him, but she refused several times.

Out of anger, Jit S. made several direct and indirect death threats against her and the children.

Crime scene at the Hanau market place

The woman lived with her daughter and son in a high-rise building near Hanau's market square.

The accused came to Hanau from his apartment in Kelsterbach in the early morning of May 11, 2022.

First, he watched from a safe distance as the woman left the house and got on a bus to go to work.

The man did not have a key to the apartment and had to assume that the children would not open the door for him - for fear of his violent attacks.

That's why he waited for the moment when the two wanted to leave the apartment shortly after 7 a.m. to go to school.

The accused pushed the screaming children back into the apartment, pushed the seven-year-old daughter onto a bed and cut her neck twice.

Wires were severed in the process.

The eleven-year-old son had to watch it, ran onto the balcony in mortal fear and jumped down from the ninth floor in a panic.

The girl still had the strength to go onto the balcony to see her brother, then collapsed and died of her injuries.

The son was taken to a hospital, but died there from the injuries caused by the fall.

According to the prosecutor, this was murder with base motives, committed with malice.

Judges want to determine details of what happened

Presiding judge Mirko Schulte said that more details about the act and its course had to be determined in the process.

The accused is the only one who can provide information about it.

Otherwise, the judges would have to read the evidence from the crime scene.

The crime on the boy may be recreated with a replica of the child's body, said the chairman.

In a further statement, also presented by the defense attorney, the defendant reported on his curriculum vitae.

He grew up with two brothers in north-west India on his father's farm, where the family grew wheat and rice.

After school he worked on the farm, as a temporary worker in a doctor's office and as a driver.

He moved to Greece a good 20 years ago and to Germany in 2016.

The wife lived with the children in India most of the time until the family moved to Germany in 2021.