Middelhoff said the suicidal thoughts even – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

      

 
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         

 
 
 
 
 
          Thomas Middelhoff at his trial in November 2014th
     

 
                                              

 
 
     
     
     
         
         
                                                             

woken up every 15 minutes, around the clock, and for four weeks: The allegations of the former top executive Thomas Middelhoff and his lawyers against the Essenes justice are heavy. Fearing a suicide Middelhoff’s judicial officers should have seen over and over again for him. Furthermore it should be sick. A few days ago he is for information FAZ been transferred to the University Hospital.

                         
         
         
                                                             
                                 

You may have led to the controls Middelhoff’s wife and himself the judiciary. Immediately after – not yet final – judgment over three years in prison without parole Middelhoff told the judges that he thought of suicide, reports the magazine “Der Spiegel”. His wife had later turned with concerns to the justice system.

                         
         
         
                                                             

On Thursday doubts about Middelhoff’s description had arisen. The North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Justice explained, at night have no official enter Middelhoff’s cell. The so-called registration book demonstrates that the controls between 22 und 6 clock clock had only consisted of a look through the peephole of the cell door.

                         
         
         
                                                                                                                                                                                                  

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Also, the chairman of the Federal Working Group on suicide prevention in prison, Catherine Benne field-Kersten, who can not imagine that Middelhoff was awakened every 15 minutes during the first four weeks around the clock. Such monitoring need to be a lot of staff, said the long-time head of the prison Celle-saline marshes. A staff could not open a cell door alone at night. This was confirmed by the union of prison staff.

                         
         
         
                                                             

Middelhoff’s lawyers give the prison to blame that with a rare immune disease (chilblain lupus) has broken out. They keep their clients for detention incompetent and have again requested his release. Although they have compared the alleged treatment with the sleep deprivation in the American prison camp at Guantanamo, the Oberlandesgericht this but so far rejected.

                                 

 
  

 
 
 
                       

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