Key legal question
Whether the defendant’s blows with the metal tube were justified as self-defence under Art. 33(1) StGB.
Extracted holding
The attack justified defensive action, but the concrete blows were disproportionate and therefore not justified self-defence.
Extracted reasoning
The appellate court’s finding on the spray’s short range was binding. Using the metal tube merely to keep distance would have sufficed; the actual repeated hard blows, especially with a dangerous object, exceeded what was appropriate in the circumstances.