Before the accused described the police officers who had been shot in Rhineland-Palatinate as "bastards", he had already unleashed a series of insults on police officers, according to the Munich Public Prosecutor's Office.

On February 4, the police were called to his apartment in a Munich apartment building.

The man reportedly pounded on neighbors' doors and yelled that he was going to "slit someone's throat".

Karen Truscheit

Editor in the “Germany and the World” department.

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Through the closed door of his ground floor apartment, he then called the police officers called “shitty cops” and “wankers”.

The policemen went to the terrace, the man came up to them and yelled that they were "stupid bull pigs": The "wankers" should be shot just like the "bastards" last week.

He referred to the deadly shots in Kusel

According to the Attorney General, he was referring to the fatal shooting of two police officers, a 24-year-old police officer and a 29-year-old police commissioner, on January 31 in the Kusel municipality.

He had "in this way expressed his consent to the act".

In addition, according to the information with the designation "bastards" shortly after the killing of two people, he disparaged them "particularly roughly and seriously".

Since Thursday, the 35-year-old defendant has had to answer before the Munich District Court for, among other things, rewarding and approving criminal offenses, denigrating the memory of the deceased and insult.

The man continued the insults with expressions such as "bull pigs", "damned wankers", "stupid Jews", even after two more police officers had arrived.

Finally he grabbed a knife lying on the ground, held it out to the police officers two to three meters away and threatened them: "What do you want to do now?"

After being threatened with pepper spray, he threw away the knife, was brought to the ground and handcuffed.

However, he tried to free himself and kick the police officers.

This was accompanied by racist terms for the police officers: "Jewish pigs", "Drecksjuden", "Scheiß-Kanaken".

On the transport to the police station, he said he would not be arrested by a "Kanaken" but only by a German citizen.

According to the German Press Agency, he confessed to the allegations in court and asked for an apology.

He blamed the insults on his alcohol consumption.

He has nothing against police officers, his cousin is a police officer.

As a result, he blamed his racist statements on his childhood in Thuringia: That's where he grew up with such things.

However, he had “long since turned away” from the ideology.