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The 66-year-old defendant enters the act at the start of the trial (archive picture)
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According to an expert, a 66-year-old pensioner who is said to be responsible for explosive mail to several food companies is not the person who can be seen on video recordings in a post office in Ulm. Both are most likely not identical, said the expert at the Heidelberg Regional Court. Both men differed in width and height of the face and in the aisle.
On behalf of the defense, the anthropological expert was supposed to determine after a comparison of body characteristics whether a video from a surveillance camera showed the accused.
The basis is the photo of a man in a post office where the parcel bombs were posted.
The person was completely masked, wearing glasses, a scarf and an FFP2 mask, said a police officer at the Heidelberg district court.
The 66-year-old defendant is at large because there is no longer any urgent suspicion.
He also denied the act at the start of the trial.
The man was arrested in mid-February.
The prosecution accuses him of causing an explosive device, causing dangerous physical harm and attempting to cause serious physical harm.
So far she assumed that he built the explosive devices himself.
The pensioner wanted to force money from the companies.
The series of explosive mailings began on February 16 in Eppelheim.
There, in the goods receiving department of the beverage manufacturer ADM Wild, a man was injured by a deflagration while accepting a package.
The following day, when a letter was opened at Lidl's headquarters in Neckarsulm, there was an explosion with three injured.
A third parcel, which was addressed to the baby food manufacturer Hipp in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm in Upper Bavaria, was intercepted in a parcel distribution center at Munich Airport.
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