In the murder trial for fatal shots at two police officers at the end of January in the Kusel district, co-defendant Florian V. provided detailed personal information for the first time.
The thirty-three-year-old has been silent for 14 days of negotiations in the Kaiserslautern district court - on Monday he answered questions from the presiding judge.
In it, the Saarlander described a difficult youth after the divorce of his parents and a temporary move to Italy.
The presiding judge was unable to ask the eagerly awaited questions about the crime: an important expert was missing due to corona disease.
The public prosecutor's office accuses the co-accused of attempted evasion, he is said to have helped to cover up the tracks.
Florian V. had made extensive statements to the police, and the corresponding interrogation videos had been shown in court last week.
The main accused is 39-year-old Andreas S. The public prosecutor assumes that the two men had hunted poachers.
A policewoman and her colleague discovered the men during a traffic check on a district road.
According to the indictment, S. shot the police officers to cover up the poaching.
The crime caused outrage across the country.
The presiding judge read out a criminal complaint from the family of the killed police officer on Monday.
She accuses the main defendant of having passed on two crime scene photos of the killed woman from investigation files in prison.
This was "grossly offensive and outrageous conduct," the judge quoted as saying.
The family is filing a complaint for "violation of the most personal sphere of life and personal rights".