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It Would Be Easy For My Chinese Ex-Husband To Get Away With Murder And He Knows This
In a legal sense, it would be difficult to sue my ex-husband for commissioning a murder.
02/06/2024
Ruth Silbermayr
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Would my ex-husband have to go to prison if he commissioned someone to murder me? The answer is: Probably not.
The Austrian and the Chinese judicial system are two separate systems. A murder can be sued in China if a person who has legal residency in China commissioned it, but it would be unlikely that anyone would sue him in China if I was being murdered in Austria. If anybody would sue him in Austria, as far as I know an Austrian courts’ ruling may not be administered in China, because Austrian courts don’t have judiciary in China.
My ex-husband knows this.
This is what he once wrote in a WeChat message (he was referring to a different lawsuit, but in the case of Austrian and Chinese judiciary being two separate systems, it is still the same):
Me: “I brought in a lawsuit one year ago. Wait until the court issues you the letter.”
Him: “An Austrian court has no use in my case, how often do I have to tell you this, we are in China”
Him: “Even if they gave me a death sentence? Can they run to China and enforce it? Or can the army come here and catch me?”
Of course, I could be wrong and there may be some kind of bilateral agreement I don’t know about that is applicable in the case of murder, but not in the case of certain civil law cases.
My ex-husband mentions a death sentence in his message. Austria has abolished capital punishment completely in 1968, as have the majority of all European countries. This is different from China, where people who commit severe criminal acts still frequently receive a death sentence.
Have you ever had to go to court?