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Frankfurt / Main (dpa) - In the process of the violent death of the Kassel District President Walter Lübcke, the defense lawyers of Markus H., who was accused of aiding and abetting, are pleading at the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court today.
He is said to have politically influenced and radicalized the main defendant Stephan Ernst.
In the opinion of the Federal Prosecutor's Office, joint target practice also enabled Ernst to commit the act in June 2019.
The Federal Prosecutor's Office, which is based on a right-wing extremist motive, had demanded a prison sentence of nine years and eight months for H. and life imprisonment with subsequent preventive detention for Ernst.
The co-plaintiff, on the other hand, had demanded that H. be convicted of murder as an accomplice on behalf of the bereaved relatives of the CDU politician.
The widow and sons of Lübcke are convinced that Ernst told the truth in his admission to the court when he stated that H. was also at the scene.
Last October, the court overturned H.'s arrest warrant because it no longer assumed a sufficiently serious suspicion.
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