“I don’t have that much”: Pensioner is supposed to pay 250,000 euros to fraudsters – and drives all over Franconia to do so. “I heard my son crying on the phone telling me that he had killed a politician’s daughter,” the older woman, a witness before the regional court, remembers the surprising shock call in March 2022.

The senior woman then remembers that “the son” passed the phone on to what was supposed to be a police officer. In order to save her son from prison, the mother had to raise a deposit of 46,000 euro.