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Frankfurt / Main (dpa) - In the murder trial for the death of the Kassel District President Walter Lübcke, the verdict will be announced today.
Since June last year, the 5th Criminal Senate of the Higher Regional Court (OLG) Frankfurt has been negotiating against the alleged perpetrator Stephan Ernst and Markus H., who has been accused of aiding and abetting.
Both defendants were active in the right wing scene for many years.
The 47-year-old German Ernst is said to have shot Lübcke on the terrace of his house in June 2019.
H. is said to have radicalized him politically.
Ernst is also charged with attempted murder of an Iraqi refugee who was seriously injured in a knife attack in January 2016.
In its plea, the federal prosecutor's office had demanded life imprisonment and subsequent preventive detention for Ernst and nine years and eight months imprisonment for H.
Ernst's defense attorneys pleaded manslaughter, while H.'s lawyers want their client to be acquitted.
The co-plaintiff who represents the widow and the two sons of Lübcke in the trial, however, demanded that H. should also be convicted of murder as an accomplice.
Lübcke's survivors believe Ernst's statement in court that H. was also at the scene of the crime.
Ernst had confessed to several different versions of the fact.
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