Petr Kramný, who was convicted for the murder of his wife Monika and daughter Klára while on vacation in Egypt, is in prison wrongfully, according to the Solomon Society. A twist in the closely watched case is to be brought by a new opinion of the American medical examiner and hitherto unknown photos from the hotel room, informs .
The Šalamoun association, which has been involved in the case for a long time, will present its findings on Wednesday at a special seminar directly on the grounds of the Czech Chamber of Deputies. In the press release, he promises that the Kramný case will come to life again thanks to completely new facts. The main point is to be the appearance of the American medical examiner James A. Filkins.
“He examined the documents regarding the cause of death of Monika and Klára Kramných, and his conclusion is devastating for the Czech condemnatory structure,” says the association’s representative Václav Peričevič. According to the American expert, the find on Monika’s neck is not a burn from an electric current, but a postmortem artifact that does not show the so-called vital reaction. According to him, the cause of death was not electrocution.
His defense comes with the claim that there are high-quality photographs of the victims taken in Egypt just before the autopsy in late July 2013. It is these images that are supposed to capture an extremely important detail. “On Monika Kramna’s neck before the Egyptian autopsy, there is no visible trace of electricity. If the footprint, which later became one of the main pieces of evidence of the alleged murder, was not found on the body before the autopsy, then it is no longer just a small doubt.” emphasizes Peričevič.
The representatives of the association add that they personally visited hotel room no. 6343 in Hurghada, Egypt, where, according to the court’s verdict, Kramný murdered with electricity. According to them, there was no network failure, faulty appliance or other mechanism that would explain the electrocution. In addition, the first Egyptian doctor who dissected the victims stated in the past that he did not notice the marks after being electrocuted.
The portal recalls that it was the prosecution’s testimony about death caused by electric current that was the key evidence that sent Kramný behind bars. Defense experts who claimed otherwise were even later convicted of producing false reports.
Last year, the case reached the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, but it rejected Kramný’s complaint. According to the opinion of the Czech Ministry of Justice at the time, the proposed evidence did not contain new facts that could lead to a different decision on guilt, and the Czech courts proved the guilt sufficiently. The next few days will show whether the current initiative of the Solomon Society will change that.
