Punctual arrival was recommended for the start of the trial against a self-proclaimed "policeman hunter" on Friday before the Idar-Oberstein lay judge's court.
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The district court was probably concerned beforehand about an onslaught of "Reichsbürger", an anti-state movement that the accused is also said to be close to.
But in the end only media representatives came in large numbers to see Volker S. and to follow the reading of the indictment.
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It took Wahis Afschar from the Koblenz Public Prosecutor's Office a good ten minutes to do this.
The 56-year-old S., who has been in custody since the beginning of February, is accused of applauding the perpetrators after the murders of two young police officers in Kusel at the end of January, ridiculing and degrading the victims and calling for imitation acts on the Internet.
Two days after the killing of a 24-year-old police student and a 29-year-old police officer by poachers, S. first sent an e-mail under his real name to the Idar-Oberstein police station, in which he celebrated the murders.
"Was that cool when I heard that," he wrote, calling the dead "shot rats."
"Personally, I'm going to have a party today," he continued, and finally wished the police officers in Idar-Oberstein: "Now off to the demo, let them spit." According to the indictment, the corona denier should be in October 2021 with a fake vaccination card obtained a digital vaccination certificate from a pharmacy in Hamburg.
The day after the e-mail was sent, Volker S. posted two videos online on Facebook showing him on a dirt road near a forest.
According to the prosecutor, he "welcomed adrenaline junkies" and then announced the founding of a "cophunter association".
He offered to lure police officers onto the trail who could be executed by novices from high seats with headshots.
In the second video, he addressed experienced shooters, to whom he would present a police helicopter to be shot down.
For the less experienced, however, young police officers are easy prey.
With ones like the ones in Kusel, "beginners wouldn't have any problems".
The accused, who lives in the Birkenfeld district and who appeared in court on Friday with a conspicuous chain with a large cross and a longer goatee, was not the only one who made insulting comments on the Internet after Kusel's murders.
The "Hate Speech" investigation group set up by the State Criminal Police Office of Rhineland-Palatinate registered 536 posts relevant to criminal law.