Questão jurídica principal
Whether a victim has party rights to attend witness examinations in the pre-trial investigation.
Decisão extraída
No. The victim has no party-like participation rights in the pre-trial stage; § 14 StPO only grants a right to apply in court on the criminal issue.
Fundamentação extraída
The court read § 110 StPO as governing the main hearing only. Since the Code expressly regulates the victim's participation only there, party rights before the main hearing are limited. Section 14 StPO confirms this by granting the victim only a right to apply before the court in the criminal issue, while the prosecutor likewise has no party-like role in the investigation under § 13(2) StPO.