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Title: Bride who shot husband 'thought it was a blank'
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URL Source: http://www.thelocal.ch/1261/20110922/
Published: Sep 24, 2011
Author: Tanya Hogan
Post Date: 2011-09-24 08:29:52 by Tatarewicz
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Comments: 63
A newlywed Swiss woman from Basel who killed her husband in a tragic gun accident in March has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter but will not serve a prison sentence. 32-year old “Nadia N“ was handed a nine-month suspended sentence by Basel Criminal Court on Wednesday, Blick newspaper reported. The woman cried as she told the court the accident happened while playing with her husband Victor’s gun at their home in the Gundeli area, south of Basel city centre, on Sunday March 20th. She explained she did not know it was loaded. Although they first met in 1996, the home care assistant and her musician husband did not marry until the beginning of March 2011. The tragedy occurred in their house two weeks later while their 13-year old son was staying with a friend. Her husband was always handling his gun, the woman told the court. Even on the day before the deadly shot was fired, he polished his weapon while sitting in front of the TV and smoking a joint. Nadia N. told her husband she wanted to fetch the family register from the safe. Victor’s gun, a Glock 17-caliber 9x19mm automatic, was also locked up there. “As I opened the safe, he called saying he wanted the gun,“ she said. “I wanted to pretend I wasn’t afraid.“ Play-acting, she told the court she held the gun to her 35-year old husband’s temple. “Hands up“, she joked. Her husband, not believing the gun to be loaded, urged her to pull the trigger. When she eventually did, the gun went off and her husband slumped to the floor. She called an ambulance but he was dead before it arrived. She was held in police custody for two nights but investigators soon came to conclusion that her husband may have loaded the gun with a real bullet rather than a blank while under the influence of marijuana. The judge found Nadia N. guilty of involuntary manslaughter, but reasoned that "the consequences of what happened are so heavy that an exemption of punishment is justified.“
Besides what's reported it seems pretty stupid to mix blanks and shells in a single gun.
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#5. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
Who in their right mind would load a Glock with blanks in the first place? It sure as hell wouldn't do any good against an armed intruder. Besides, even if it was a blank, it still would have blasted a hole if the barrel was placed right up against the temple. Sounds to me that either he forgot he had left a round in the chamber, or the wife put one in herself. Maybe he didn't "urge her to pull the trigger" as she claims, and she decided that she was going to do him in. Who knows. But then again, even our "heroes" sometimes forget that their guns are loaded...
He's da only one who is professional enough to play wid dat Glock up in dere! And don't you forget it either.
I always get a chuckle out of that...
I thought I would fall out of my chair laughing at that big dummy the first time I ever saw that. Very next thing after he tells the kids what a professional he is, he shoots himself. You can't make that $#it up!
You'd think he'd at least have the sense to end the presentation after he shot himself and walk off with a least a grain a dignity. Oh no, he wants to hold an AK-47 for the class afterwards, till the kids tell him "NO, put it down". I think the guy had to quit the DEA, he was the butt of so many jokes he couldn't work there anymore. Then again maybe he was sampling too much of the evidence, maybe THAT'S what happened that day... LOL
I think the guy had to quit the DEA, he was the butt of so many jokes he couldn't work there anymore. Then again maybe he was sampling too much of the evidence, maybe THAT'S what happened that day... LOL Actually it was an AR15 or M16 he asked for after the shooting. And he sued the DEA for releasing the tape and exposing him to ridicule. In his suit he claimed that he was "one of the best if not THE BEST undercover agent in the DEA". Do you believe that? Even after leg shooting himself his arrogance was undiminished.
here's page two from the former DEA agent's complaint, found here.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestShe was held in police custody for two nights but investigators soon came to conclusion that her husband may have loaded the gun with a real bullet rather than a blank while under the influence of marijuana.
#6. To: FormerLurker (#5)
#7. To: James Deffenbach (#6)
He's da only one who is professional enough to play wid dat Glock up in dere! And don't you forget it either.
#9. To: FormerLurker (#7)
I always get a chuckle out of that...
#10. To: James Deffenbach (#9)
#21. To: FormerLurker (#10)
You'd think he'd at least have the sense to end the presentation after he shot himself and walk off with a least a grain a dignity. Oh no, he wants to hold an AK-47 for the class afterwards, till the kids tell him "NO, put it down".
#37. To: All, FormerLurker, James Deffenbach, randge, Lod, Jethro Tull (#21)
#39. To: Eric Stratton (#37)
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