Two young people die while doing their job - hit by several bullets in the head and body, on the side of a country road near the 5000-inhabitant town of Kusel in Rhineland-Palatinate.
The two men accused of the crime are currently on trial in Kaiserslautern;
they are said to have shot police candidate Yasmin B. and police commissioner Alexander K., aged 24 and 29, on January 31 to cover up poaching that had previously been committed.
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Editor in the "Life" department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper.
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While the murders caused horror among many people in Germany, a man from Hausen in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate reacted quite differently: he shot two videos.
And he wrote an email.
Volker S. sent the email to the Idar-Oberstein police station on February 2 under his real name.
In it he said that he had had a great day on January 31st - the day of the murders - and will still celebrate today that two "Palatinate rats" had been shot.
The next day he published the videos on his Facebook account.
In them he announced that he wanted to set up a “Cophunter” association, i.e. an association for police hunters.
You can become a member for 500 euros.
In return, S. offered to lure police officers onto a dirt road at the edge of a forest as a target for waiting gunmen.
Young police officers in particular, as has just been shown in Kusel, are easy prey.
If you manage to catch a shot between the eyes, you get your money back.
Volker S. has been in custody since February 9th.
"Overshot the target"
At the start of the trial against the 56-year-old at the Idar-Oberstein district court in early August, public prosecutor Wahis Afschar listed the criminal offenses he saw fulfilled by the videos and the e-mail: public calls for criminal offenses - in this case murder - approval of criminal offenses , denigration of the memory of the deceased and insult.
On Thursday, Volker S. had his second appearance in court.
He had his defender Martin Nitschmann make a brief statement at the beginning.
It is true that S. wrote the email.
He was “far over the target”, for which he apologized.
The videos were also made by him.
From the defendant's point of view, these were meant as satire: "In retrospect, he knows that that was also wrong." To a commissioner, S.
The two videos were shown in the courtroom.
S. wears a helmet and a scarf in front of his mouth.
His white German Shepherd can also be seen.
He only moved from Erftstadt to the 200-strong village of Hausen in November 2021.
His landlady, who drew the police's attention to the two videos, says she and her husband felt sorry for him.
On the Internet it can be understood that S. made a fuss about the fact that he lost "everything" in the flood disaster last July.
A local newspaper in Cologne also reported on it.
However, an official from Idar-Oberstein testifies that the municipality of Erftstadt informed him that S. was not a flood victim.
He had not paid his rent for months and had been terminated.
The social welfare office paid for the apartment in Hausen.