STA - Ljubljana, 30 January: The Ljubljana District Court has decided to open to the public the trial of Stefan Cakić, who stands accused of killing actor Gašper Tič. Cakić, who pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges, indicated on Tuesday that sexual abuse led him to stab the actor.
Charged with manslaughter in a state of severely diminished capacity from alcohol and cocaine abuse, Cakić pleaded not guilty to the charges, but admitted to stabbing the 44-year-old actor in Tič's flat in June last year.
At the hearing today, Cakić read the account he gave the investigators when they apprehended him.
He said he had been drinking and using cocaine before meeting Tič, an acquaintance, in a bar. He started talking to him, but does not remember leaving the bar. He remembers the subsequent events in fragmented images.
According to Cakić's account, he woke up in an apartment feeling abused and wanting to die, then seeing Tič with a knife and later in a pool of blood before leaving the apartment and asking a passer-by to call the police.
A similar sequence of events is evident from two calls whose recordings were played at court.
A man called the police from a store close to the crime scene saying that a young man told him he had been a victim of an attack.
The recording of Cakić's call was also played, in which he says he was forced into sexual relations by a gay friend with a knife and that this is why he stabbed him in self-defence.
The accused said he did not have homosexual tendencies and that he had never had sexual relations with a man.
In 2015, Cakić enrolled in the French Foreign Legion which he said had changed him substantially. He started taking cocaine in France. When drinking or taking drugs he can turn emotional or aggressive, depending on the company, Cakić also said.
The trial will continue on 16 February by hearing witnesses who were in Cakić's and Tič's company that night.
