The appeal process against the father of the Hanau assassin before the district court in Hanau started on Monday with delays and detailed statements by the accused.

The 75-year-old man was sentenced to a fine of 5,400 euros in three cases almost a year ago for insult.

Both he and the prosecutor appealed against this.

In the trial before the district court, the man rejected the allegations.

"There is no offense in any of those three cases," he said.

At the same time, he accused public prosecutor Martin Links of "presumed incitement to hatred".

According to the defendant, they wanted to "silence him" and ruin him financially.

The man is the father of the 43-year-old German who shot nine people for racist reasons in Hanau on February 19, 2020 before killing his mother and himself.

In a criminal complaint, his father is said to have described people who took part in a demonstration near his home as "wild strangers".

In addition, the public prosecutor's office had accused him of calling a special task force from Frankfurt, which was deployed in his house on the night of the crime, a "terrorist squad" or "terrorist unit".

He is also said to have accused the mayor of Hanau, Claus Kaminsky (SPD), of “voter deception”.

During the appeal process, the presiding judge read out not only the letters from the accused and other documents, but also the report of a psychiatrist who had already attended the proceedings before the district court, and the man a delusional disorder with "combat paranoia" and "querulous delusions" and at the same time right-wing extremist ideas certified.

Similar to the trial before the district court, the accused repeatedly addressed the presiding judge and the public prosecutor's office as well as the press representatives in an angry tone.

He repeatedly demanded a "timetable" from the presiding judge and accused the public prosecutor's office that it was "a shame for our country" how the proceedings before the district court were conducted.

He also explained: "My son is not the assassin, please make a note of that." The presiding judge had to call him to order several times and refer him to his place.

At the beginning of his statements, he also made it clear that he would not pay any fine.

"They don't get any money from me here.

You have to steal it from me or I'll get a substitute prison sentence," the accused said.

Originally, the court had scheduled only one day of hearing.

However, after the accused again referred to his hearing problems, which he has suffered since he was beaten by police officers in his home on the night of the crime, the presiding judge adjourned the hearing until Friday (September 9).