According to psychology expert Petr Vavřík, the self-proclaimed healer was an extreme manipulator. His goal may have been to gain attention, power and money.
According to Vavřík, the man created a strong relationship with absolute trust with the two defendants, the Kutnohorsk dentist (due to the Act on the Protection of Victims, her name cannot be published) and Irena Stejskálova, a secondary school teacher.
Women were willing to fulfill his wishes without reservation, not to subject them to criticism and to make sacrifices.
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“Such relational frameworks were created there, from which a normal person cannot escape,” said Vavřík.
In both women, the expert also found strong obedience, but also fear of the victim. At the same time, the women did not suffer from delusions, their control and recognition abilities were basically preserved. Women are already judged in freedom.
According to the expert, the victim himself behaved like a manipulator. “All his activities were significantly fueled by the need for power. He treated his thoughts and instructions to the environment purposefully, you can see the feeling of power, the need for domination,” the expert pointed out.
Imhotep, Da Vinci or Putin
According to Stejskála, the victim sometimes thought of himself as Jesus, other times as his father. At Christmas dinner, for example, he is said to have shouted: “Give me back my son (meaning Jesus) back!”.
However, according to the defendant, the man at other times thought of himself as Imhotep, the executioner Mydlára or Leonardo da Vinci. In one instance, he also allegedly claimed to be “the reincarnation of Vladimir Putin’s leg”.
According to the indictment, the women allegedly murdered a 50-year-old healer in Prague’s Hájy in October last year at his own request. According to the autopsy, he died of poisoning with the intravenous anesthetic Propofol.
When his body didn’t disappear, we found out that he lied to us. So we went to report it to the police
The women allegedly believed the man’s promises that his body would disappear by morning. When the body did not disappear, the women calmed down, ate and went to report everything to the police station. “When his body didn’t disappear, we found out that he lied to us. So we went to report it to the police,” Stejskalová told the police.
“I am very sorry for the whole situation, I am sorry that a person died, I am sorry (the defendant) and I that we had to experience what we experienced,” Stejskalová said at the end of her testimony.
Both defendants defend themselves by saying that the victim convinced or manipulated them to help him “leave with dignity”. Stejskalová initially thought that the man just wanted to go “to his family in another reality where there is no betrayal or love”.
With the passage of time, she realized more rationally that it was more about “leaving out of fear of the consequences of what people did under his influence.” In connection with the community surrounding the victim, the Central Bohemian police are investigating two deaths, two other people were allegedly ordered by the healer to pinch their little toes, which was a punishment for disobedience or a proof of loyalty.
The man’s account contained 90 million crowns, most of which should have been sent to him by people from the community he surrounded himself with.
The police are investigating two deaths during a forest ritual near Český Šternberk Castle
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