In the trial for the alleged murder of two police officers in the Kusel district, the testimony of the co-defendant Florian V. was again the focus of the police on Friday.

When the crime was reenacted, the thirty-three-year-old appeared credible and told the story in a structured manner, reported an interrogator before the Kaiserslautern district court.

Julia Anton

Editor in the “Society & Style” department.

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V. states that he did not shoot on the night of the crime, but he could only remember four shots, but at least 20 had been fired. Florian V. is silent in court on the advice of his lawyers.

His statements to the police are therefore of particular importance.

On Friday it was also about the financial situation of the main defendant Andreas S. The trained master baker took over his parents' business in 2016 and pushed its expansion, but had to file for bankruptcy after a short time.

His debts amount to around 2.4 million euros.

He has been receiving unemployment benefit I since autumn last year.

S. paid V. 10 to 20 euros per game

However, poaching apparently improved his financial situation immensely, as an investigator calculated: from September to the time of the crime at the end of January, he earned a mid-five-digit amount.

This emerges from the thirty-nine-year-old's documents, in which he kept a kind of bookkeeping.

He paid his co-defendant Florian V., who was also unemployed, ten to 20 euros for each game that S. killed and V. carried into the car.

S. complained on Friday that he was being deliberately provoked in prison.

"At some point my patience will run out, and then it will escalate," said S. He had contacted the prison administration and was now alone in the yard, which was disadvantageous for other prisoners and made them angry.

Further investigations could not support his version of the crime, in which he blames the shots on the police candidate V. and invokes self-defense.

Neither corresponding shot in an embankment at the crime scene nor an alleged drug hiding place by V. were found, as police officers said on Thursday.

Because S. was surprisingly involved at the beginning and more extensive evidence is now being submitted, the process is dragging on more and more.

Among other things, a Saarland investigative group has submitted files dealing with further allegations of poaching against S.

The verdict, originally planned for early September, should now come in mid-November at the earliest.