The man, who confessed to the act, faced up to 15 years in prison. The 29-year-old foreigner murdered his 39-year-old partner after having been repeatedly expelled from her flat by the police over domestic violence. However, the man defended himself, saying he had never harmed his girl-friend before the murder. The state attorney Military jet 'down near Damascus' ...
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He even banned his partner from contacts with her daughter. The family feared him, she added. The conflict culminated in March when the foreigner was expelled from the flat in Zelesice near Brno. However, in spite of the ban, he returned home a couple of days later and his partner called the police. The man was arrested and accused of obstructing the execution of an official decision. He was released in two days, but he was categorically banned from approaching the home. However, shortly afterwards the man came home and murdered his girl-friend. A foreigner and border police patrol detained him in south Moravia close to the Czech-Austrian border when he probably intended to cross the border illegally. The Syrian is one of the 665 persons who have been expelled from home over domestic violence in the Czech Republic since January when the new law enabling the police to expel a violent partner from home for 10 days took effect.
(Ceske Noviny)
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