Homicide Zurich District Court convicts Spaniard of triple murder
On Tuesday, the District Court of Zurich found a 47-year-old Spaniard guilty of three murders in Zurich and Laupen BE. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
09.12.2025, 16:14
09.12.2025, 16:38
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"The defendant's statements were in no way convincing", said the judge at the opening of the verdict on Tuesday. For example, he had said that he did not remember a homicide in Laupen, although the victims were his neighbors. He had only presented his alleged alibis for the times of the crimes in court, the judge continued.
The court dispensed with the subsequent detention demanded by the public prosecutor.
Victims were a therapist and neighbors
The scaffolder was charged with killing a 56-year-old psychoanalyst in Zurich's Seefeld district with 14 stab wounds on December 15, 2010.
Exactly five years later, he allegedly killed his former neighbors, an elderly couple, in Laupen with around 30 axe or hammer blows. In both cases, he is said to have wanted to steal valuables. The verdict is not yet final and can be appealed to the Zurich High Court.
DNA traces found at both crime scenes spoke against the accused. He explained this by saying that he suffers from psoriasis. Because of this, DNA spreads easily, and he had been at both crime scenes for other reasons.
