As early as 2004, the Saarland Hunters' Association (VJS) applied to the suspected police officer from Kusel for his hunting license to be revoked.
The VJS announced on Tuesday in Saarwellingen that the cause was negligent bodily harm in a hunting accident.
The thirty-eight-year-old was then sentenced to a fine.
According to the verdict, which became final in 2008, he had fired a shotgun while hunting rabbits without having enough sight.
He seriously injured a fellow hunter.
His hunting license was then revoked.
According to the district council, after the expiry of the blocking period for the re-issuance of the hunting license, the man received it again in 2012 and repeatedly extended it: until March 2020. Then the responsible employee of the lower hunting authority, who is also the deputy state hunting master, received the suspect’s application for an extension of the hunting license rejected, announced the VJS.
A police candidate (24) and a police commissioner (29) from Saarland were shot dead on January 31 during a vehicle check on a district road near Kusel in Rhineland-Palatinate.
Two men (32 and 38 years) are in custody as suspects.
The investigators assume that the Germans wanted to cover up poaching with the act.
According to the Saarbrücken public prosecutor's office, there have been a total of 24 criminal investigations against the 38-year-old man since 2004.
Proceedings on suspicion of delaying insolvency, pretending to be a criminal offense and attempted fraud are still pending.