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District Court Munich I: Defendant (3rd from left) at the start of the trial
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It becomes too much for the accused: When the public prosecutor reads out how the 14-year-old was hit by the car at a speed of more than 120 kilometers per hour and thrown 43 meters through the air as she reads out the devastating injuries the doctors caused found the boy, the 35-year-old says: “I'm not fine.
It's hard for me to breathe. ”The trial is interrupted, a helper brings a strong sedative - it only takes about half an hour to continue.
The man does not deny that he is responsible for the death of the youth.
On November 15, 2019, shortly before midnight, Victor-Friedrich B. from the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district raced through Munich on the run from a police checkpoint on the opposite lane.
He ignored several red lights and spotted two 14 and 16 year old teenagers crossing the street.
The 14-year-old died a little later in the hospital, the 16-year-old was seriously injured.
"I have no words for what happened," said a statement that his lawyer read out on behalf of her client at the start of the trial on Tuesday at the Munich District Court I.
"Shock, feelings of guilt, thoughts of suicide," he feels.
"Today I can say that I completely underestimated the danger and overestimated myself."
The statement describes how the man drove through the city with a friend to show him his new car, a black BMW, how he drank two beers, took around two grams of cocaine and finally took the drive on the way to his girlfriend missed, illegally turned - and thus attracted the attention of the police.
How he got scared because his probation records didn't allow him to take any drugs.
How he fled through the city as a ghost driver, how sure he was to make it and to have the situation under control.
"I consider myself a good driver." He had no points in Flensburg until the evening of the crime.
The prosecutor's office accuses the defendant of murder and several attempted murders.
"He accepted that the vehicle he was driving could kill an unpredictable number of people," said the prosecutor.
"By doing this, he put his interests - namely, avoiding re-imprisonment at all costs - in blatant selfishness over the right to life of other road users."
The authority named a total of 48 witnesses and 15 experts.
In addition, a so-called dashcam in the windshield of a witness had recorded the driving course of the razor from about 26 seconds before the collision with the killed and injured youth.
There are also videos of the interior surveillance of two buses.
48 witnesses and 15 experts named
Although the airbag was triggered in the fatal accident, the man initially drove on according to the prosecution.
He then continued his escape on foot until the police could arrest him.
The man resisted violently.
He was initially in custody and has been serving his suspended suspended sentence since the beginning of May.
The accident caused a stir and great sadness in Munich.
A week later, around 400 people held a vigil near the accident site.
After the accident, the police also came under fire at times.
The officials were accused of harassing the driver and thus provoking the accident.
The Munich police rejected this.
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Candles and flowers at the scene of the accident (archive image)
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The defense criticized the murder charge at the trial: "This is a murder charge that would probably not have been brought four or five years ago," says his lawyer.
"How do you come to believe that our client intentionally wanted to murder people?" She also makes allegations against the police officers who pursued the defendant after he escaped control.
You have to "deal with the question of whether the reaction of the police was okay," she says.
"With regard to the danger situation, does it perhaps make no difference whether I am the fugitive or the persecutor?"
From their point of view, only a conviction of their client for an illegal car race resulting in death should be possible.
The maximum sentence would be ten years.
"Not every misconduct in road traffic that kills a person is murder."
The court has set twelve trial days for the trial.
The judgment could therefore fall on February 26th.
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