The prosecutor Kleve investigates two suspects who are said to have participated in a car race. An uninvolved 43-year-old was rammed and died.
Investigators are covered with details about the suspects. "We have evidence of identity, but we have not found it yet, we are looking for it," a prosecutor spokesman said.
On Monday evening, two drivers in PS-strong cars on a narrow street in Moers on the Lower Rhine have delivered an illegal car race. One of them allegedly tried to pass the other vehicle.
The 43-year-old had inflected with her small car from a side street and met at the intersection of one of the cars. Further investigations would have to show if either of the two racers actually drove on the opposite lane as witnessed by witnesses, the spokesman said.
At first the holders of the vehicles had been arrested, but they were released again. "We now know that the owners were most likely not the drivers," the spokesman said.
Search for DNA traces
The two vehicles, which should have been involved in the race, are examined according to the prosecutor, for example on DNA traces. Proof of who has driven, the investigators hope for the technology of the accident car. It is trying to reconstruct which cell phone was logged in via Bluetooth.
The alleged race in Moers recalls other cases - such as the so-called Ku'damm Raser in Berlin. The two men drove in February 2016 at excessive speed on the Kurfürstendamm, an uninvolved 69-year-old was killed.
The Berlin district court sentenced the men in March 2019 for murder to life imprisonment. The court found it proved that the drivers accepted the death of the pensioner. The first murder judgment against a Raser had been confirmed weeks before in Hamburg.