According to his own information, the lawyer of the main suspect in the Lübcke murder case has evidence that a second man could have been at the scene of the murder of Kassel's district president Walter Lübcke (CDU). "We follow this suspicion," confirmed the Dresden defense lawyer Frank Hannig at the request of SPIEGEL. At the same time, he confirmed that he had submitted several evidence to the investigating authorities to find DNA traces of the alleged accomplice. Who it is, Hannig did not want to say.
In a confession that had since been revoked, the suspect Stephan Ernst had not spoken of another offender. However, according to Hannig, his client was under the influence of medication at the time of the hearing.
The investigators are according to SPIEGEL information so far no reliable evidence for the presence of an accomplice at the scene before. However, there is the testimony of a witness who wants to have observed next to the alleged vehicle of Ernst another suspicious car, who had ridden in the murder night by the residence of the CDU politician.
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Finally, the suspicions against Markus H., a confidant of Stephan Ernst, had further condensed: right-wing extremist H., who is also in custody, Ernst has encouraged in its Tatplan, as evidenced by a decision of the Federal Court. A witness is said to have investigators Markus H. as a "thinker" and Stephan Ernst as a "doer".
Meanwhile, the question arises of Ernst's responsibility. As early as 1995, the neo-Nazi had been convicted of attempted manslaughter by the Wiesbaden district court. At that time, a reviewer came to the conclusion that Ernst suffered from a borderline disorder. The board then assumed a "reduced guilt capacity".
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