2024-04-05 04:19:07
A man who abducted a child he did not know kept him in his private garage for more than two days, until the girls were freed by Aro officers who staged an assault.
About this news portal lrytas.lt Tautvilė Merkevičiūtė, assistant to the chairman of the Kaunas district court for relations with the public and the media, informed.
Currently, G. Filipavičius is in a psychiatric institution, where he is undergoing an inpatient examination.
He was delivered to the Utena expert department of the State Forensic Psychiatry Service on March 14. Stay in a psychiatric institution during the examination is counted towards the time of arrest.
Vilma Mažonė, chief specialist of the Communications Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office, informed the portal that inpatient psychiatric examinations usually take 2-3 months.
Therefore, if G. Filipavičius is found guilty and released from a psychiatric institution, leaving him free would be too dangerous.
Having recognized this, the court extended the detention as much as the Kaunas prosecutor, Mindaugas Sabaitis, who is in charge of the investigation, requested on Thursday.
The hearing regarding the arrest of G. Filipavičius was held remotely on Thursday morning – the suspect himself did not participate in it, his lawyer was present. The court decision was announced on the same day, at 3 p.m.
“The arrest is intended taking into account the fact that, while at liberty, a person may run away or hide from the prosecutor or the court, obstruct the pre-trial investigation or commit new criminal acts,” T. Merkevičiūtė informed about the court’s motives.
Much will depend on the conclusions of the examination
Where G. Filipavičius will be kept will depend on the conclusions of the examination.
If the experts admit that the Kaunas citizen was aware of his actions during the incriminated crime, in other words, he is accused, he will be returned to Kaunas prison, where he will be held until the verdict is announced. However, if a contrary decision was made, he would remain in a psychiatric hospital until the end of the trial, and then the court would order him involuntary treatment, most likely in the same psychiatric institution.
Mr. Filipavičius is facing not only a criminal case for the kidnapping of a minor, but also three administrative cases for violating public order, brought after he ran amok with an excavator in the Karmėlava forest in the summer of 2023, trying to run over local residents who were protesting against illegal works.
In one of the administrative cases, it has already been decided to impose a fine of 80 euros on him, and the other two are still pending in court.
She was kidnapped while waiting for the bus
The girl was abducted on January 7, before 5 p.m., while waiting for a bus stop on Chemijos street. The attacker, who drove up in a car, pushed her into the car.
He was not familiar with his victim. After the public was actively involved in the search, and the police performed their duties professionally, the child was quickly found and freed from the clutches of the kidnapper. It happened on January 9, just before midnight.
The little girl was cold – her body temperature had dropped below normal. The girl was treated for some time in Kaunas clinics, and then discharged home.
According to criminologists, G. Filipavičius carefully prepared for the crime. The officers were shocked by the environment of the garage and the items found in it.
At first, it was believed that there could be more than one victim of the kidnapper, but so far the authorities have not commented on whether they managed to collect enough evidence to substantiate these suspicions.
He admitted the guilt
During the interrogation, G. Filipavičius basically admitted his guilt for the kidnapping of the 9-year-old girl, but did not testify, did not tell the details of the crime he was accused of.
Before the start of one of the court hearings, he also admitted to journalists that he had committed a serious crime – at that time, the man from Kaunas said incoherently that he did not want to kidnap the child, that it happened “accidentally”.
In addition to the kidnapping, G. Filipavičius is charged with two other criminal acts, which officials have not named for the sake of protecting the minor’s rights and the success of the investigation. The pre-trial investigation is currently ongoing.
Famous in a strange way
G. Filipavičius, who founded his company, was engaged in the car repair business, had a service station in the array of garages located in the Eiguliai micro-district of Kaunas, and had purchased about 10 garages in various parts of the city.
The man from Kaunas, who has a strange and closed manner and has no family, was previously punished dozens of times for environmental requirements, public order and other violations.
People who knew the man from Kaunas, who shocked the public, said that he had installed a swimming pool and a running track in one of his garages.
People noticed his stinginess and quirks. It is said that he even fixed his own teeth.
2024-04-05 04:19:07