"As I see it, my client's questioning and pleadings will take up the opening day, with the verdict to come the next," Herr Hug said in a Novosti interview.
The investigation will finish in two or three weeks, with the indictment to follow no earlier than late in April or early May, he added.
According to rumors, the suspect will be transferred next week from a psychiatric asylum in Rheinau to the Regensdorf jail in the Canton of Zurich. The lawyer was in no position to either refute or confirm the information.
Meanwhile, the Swiss News Agency, or SDA, announced yesterday that Kaloyev was to be transferred to the Peschwis jail in Regensdorf, to be kept in a maximum-security cell, with round-the-clock monitoring.
Kaloyev is accused of murdering Peter Nielsen, SkyGuide flight controller on duty in the night of the Bodensee air crash.
Nielsen, 36, Danish national, was found stabbed dead close to his house in Kloten, in the night of February 24, 2004. As the suspect has acknowledged, he had come to the victim's place that day to show the photographs of his dead wife and children. Nielsen pushed him off, and the snapshots fell on the ground. Kaloyev had a blackout then. He has no idea of what he could have done next in a total loss of self-control.
Kaloyev, then 49, lost all his near and dear-wife, son and daughter-in the crash. He was detained in a Kloten hotel the day after the murder, and eventually put to the Rheinau asylum because of suicidal obsession. A psychiatric expertise qualified him as of sound mind.
A TU 154 passenger jet of Russia's Bashkir Airlines collided with a cargo Boeing in the small hours of July 2, 2002, above Bodensee (Lake of Constance). The appalling crash killed 69 on board the Russian liner. Bashkir children traveling to Spain for summer vacation made a majority of the victims. Both Boeing pilots also died.
The tragedy site was in the responsibility zone of the Swiss-based SkyGuide flight control company. Germany's air accident investigation board put a greater part of the blame on SkyGuide employees, and a minor on two Russian pilots.
