The Berlin district court has sentenced eight of the ten defendants to life imprisonment. Seven of them were found guilty of joint murder. 35-year-old Kadir Padir, known as the Hells Angels rocker chief and allegedly shooting deadly shots, was convicted of incitement to murder.
Another accused was also found guilty of murder but received a lower sentence of 12 years for his help in the investigation. The tenth defendant received a small sentence. The trial of another man was severed and two alleged accomplices are on the run.
13 partially masked men were on 10 January 2014 in the Wettcafé Expekt in the Berlin district Reinickendorf penetrated. The man in the lead fired in the back room with a pistol at Tahir Ozbek. Six bullets hit, Özbek died in the café.
The defendant Recep O. had stood the shots, but denied murder plans. An order to kill Tahir Ozbek did not exist.
The court obviously saw it differently now. The investigators had rated the murder as a revenge for a previous confrontation. Tahir Ozbek and a few of his buddies had beaten up in the middle of October 2013 in front of a discotheque with doormen and Hells Angels, a Hells Angel had injured to the hospital.
More on the verdict against Kadir Padir and the Hells Angels you can see on SPIEGEL TV: 7 October, 23:25, on RTL.