{"id":301339,"date":"2021-02-18T16:31:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T14:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=301339"},"modified":"2021-02-18T16:31:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T14:31:12","slug":"testimonies-in-lichtenstrasser-trial-intensify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=301339","title":{"rendered":"Testimonies in Lichtenstrasser trial intensify"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Eba Kandovazu<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MORE witnesses continued to give their account of events on the morning that Nimt Executives Eckart Mueller and Heimo Hellwig were gunned down at the hands of an employee.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Karolina Tsuses, employed as a cleaner at the NIMT\u2019s Arandis campus told the court that she, on 15 April 2019 crossed with a bakkie, seemingly that of the accused person in the matter, Ernst Lichtenstrasser on her way to work. When she arrived to work that morning, Mueller and Hellwig were lying in a pool of blood.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tsuses told Judge Christie Liebenberg that she was \u2018very shocked\u2019 to see that a \u2018white man\u2019 was driving along a path that was only used by NIMT employees when they went to dispose of refuse. She testified that although she did not check to see the exact time, the bakkie crossed her path as she had arrived on the campus premises at exactly 06:55. Her estimate is that she had crossed paths with the bakkie some five minutes earlier. Her description of the bakkie is that it is similar to one of her colleagues at Nimt.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"570\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Testimonies-in-Lichtenstrasser-trial-intensify.jpg\" alt=\"Testimonies Lichtenstrasser trial witnesses Nimt Executives Eckart Mueller Heimo Hellwig\" class=\"wp-image-301340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Testimonies-in-Lichtenstrasser-trial-intensify.jpg 300w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Testimonies-in-Lichtenstrasser-trial-intensify.jpg 325w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Testimonies-in-Lichtenstrasser-trial-intensify.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><figcaption>TRIAL: Ernst Lichtenstrasser in court today. Photo by Eba Kandovazu<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Tsuses, when she and other colleagues arrived at the campus that morning, they were told to go back home and only return to work a week after the fatal shooting incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The commencement of the murder trial was delayed due to the unavailability of an Interpreter.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An agitated Lichtenstrasser said the delay, which was approximately 30 minutes was an infringement on his rights to a speedy trial.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn innocent man has to suffer because of this. My rights to a fair and speedy trial are being violated. Systems in this country should change\u201d. Lichtenstrasser shouted from the dock, shortly after an announcement that an interpreter wasn\u2019t available and that one was on his way.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The doctor that examined during a post mortem procedure on the two deceased persons, Dr. Agustu Gawab informed the court that Mueller was shot multiple times in the head, chest, his upper arm, his nose and his hand. Hellwig was shot in the head and chest.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Prosecutor General Antonia Verhoeff is representing the state, with Albert Titus representing Lichtenstrasser on Legal aid instructions.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The trial continues<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\"><!-- MetaSlider 271797 not found --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":301340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Testimonies in Lichtenstrasser trial intensify - Informant\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"MORE witnesses continued to give their account of events on the morning that Nimt Executives Eckart Mueller and Heimo Hellwig were gunned...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=301339\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Testimonies in Lichtenstrasser trial intensify - 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