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Process start in Hanover after fatal shots in the middle of the intersection: »Vigilante justice on the asphalt«

2021-11-30T14:36:09.718Z


It was a crime in broad daylight: The trial of a 33-year-old man who shot a Porsche driver at a traffic light has started in Hanover. The case is clear to his defense attorney.


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Defendant Z. with defense attorney Yana Tchelpanova and defense attorney Fritz Willig: Was it about debts, open bills, injured honor?

Photo: Ole Spata / dpa

On June 3 of this year there was an incident in downtown Hanover that eyewitnesses will probably not forget for a long time.

Around 1.30 p.m. a Mercedes is waiting at a red light.

A Porsche Cayenne pulls up next to it, the passenger gets out and hits the Mercedes with a wooden slat.

Its driver pulls out a gun, shoots the man who is fleeing, more shots follow.

In the end, the driver of the Porsche is dead, the passenger has disappeared, the alleged shooter on foot on the run.

He surrenders four days later.

Now he is on trial: Rinor Z., 33 years old, born in Kosovo, German citizen, married, father of a nine-year-old daughter, building contractor, living in Langenhagen, currently in custody.

A man in a black hoodie, unshaven, hands tied.

He waves to a friend in the auditorium of Hall 127 in the Hanover Regional Court.

With a wooden slat on the windshield

The public prosecutor accuses Rinor Z. of trying to kill one person and killing another - "without being a murderer".

She has charged Z. with attempted and completed manslaughter.

In front of him sits one of his defense lawyers: Fritz Willig, 80 years old, former 96 President and one of a kind from Hanover.

There are videos from surveillance cameras that documented the process.

According to the indictment, the three men meet at the traffic light intersection Arndtstrasse / Herschelstrasse.

M. gets out of the black Porsche, he hits the windshield of the white Mercedes several times with a wooden slat, "to get the defendant to get out," as the public prosecutor says.

Z. shoots through the closed driver's window at M., but misses the 51-year-old.

He drops the wooden slat and runs away, Z. shoots again.

M. first seeks protection behind the rear of the Mercedes, then runs away.

Is it about rival clans?

Z. gets out, aims over the roof of his car at Armin N., the driver of the Porsche, and shoots.

A bullet hits N. through the open side window, the car hits a traffic sign.

N. bleeds to death on site.

Z. also flees and initially goes into hiding.

N. and M., the two occupants of the Porsche, are related by marriage.

How do you know the defendant?

Are they members of hostile clans?

Was it about debts, unpaid bills, injured honor?

The district court has taken special security precautions, more law enforcement officers than usual are on duty.

In addition, police officers hold the position in front of, in and around the building.

Spectators have to identify themselves, their data will be saved for the day of the negotiation.

According to the »Hannoversche Allgemeine«, Z. was said to have worn a bulletproof vest during a detention check in the Hanover District Court.

Is his life being sought after?

Arguing in a parking lot

Lawyer Matthias Waldraff represents M. as a joint plaintiff, he rules out further attacks of any kind.

"In this case there are no clans, and there are also no acts of revenge to be feared," Waldraff told SPIEGEL.

In the court, the presiding judge Stefan Joseph has documents distributed that are subsequently handed over to the file.

Including photos of the survivor M. The shots in June are said to have been preceded by a fight in October 2020 in which the defendant Z. attacked and injured M. in a parking lot.

Waldraff says his client refrained from filing a criminal complaint.

On that June 3rd, it was his client who launched the attack.

Why?

That will have to be clarified in the main hearing, said the lawyer.

In the hallway in front of room 127, defense attorney Willig says that Rinor Z. could not have expected an attack in broad daylight.

"He didn't mean to shoot anyone." But why was he carrying a gun with him without permission?

"Out of fear." Of what?

"It was about his own protection." He does not give details.

Only this much: "It was vigilante justice on the asphalt."

A man with a past

On the next day of the trial, in mid-December, Rinor Z. will make "extensive" comments on the allegations and the previous history, announces Willig.

He will also answer questions.

The murder weapon has disappeared to this day.

At Armin N's funeral in June in the Muslim part of the Stöcken cemetery, more than 1,000 mourners paid their last respects.

Luxury cars from all over the republic lined the adjacent streets.

Armin N. was a man with a past: at the age of 12 he was already considered an intensive offender in Hanover.

He shot a man four years ago.

The proceedings were discontinued, it was said that N. had acted in self-defense.

Source: spiegel

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