Prisoner strangled for debt of 40 euros

wuppertal - A youthful jailbird (18) in the prison of Wuppertal-Ronsdorf one two years older fellow detainees strangled. The two flew together during a game of cards in the hair because a small gambling debt.,, According to the first information was about 40 euros, '' said Thomas Kutschaty, the Minister of Justice in North Rhine-Westphalia.,, They got after twenty minutes arguing about the payment and that was completely out of hand. ''

The fighters had a cell next to each other and were in their free time visiting each other, for example, play poker or to call a. That was until the game Wednesday escalated twice happened before with no problems. The youngest prisoner was sentenced in March to three years for robbery, burglary and arson.

According Kutschaty the perpetrator known.,, He alerted the warden himself and said, 'there's something bad happened' '. The prison doctor tried in vain to resuscitate the victim, who was stuck on suspicion of theft and illegal possession of weapons.