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Sub-defendant Florian V. with his defense attorney Thomas Will at the start of the trial on June 21
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In the murder trial of two police officers killed near Kusel in Rhineland-Palatinate, an investigator reproduced the descriptions of the co-defendant Florian V. during an interrogation after the crime.
According to this, V. made a clear statement during the survey on February 18, around two weeks after the crime – and blamed the main defendant Andreas S. for all the shots.
According to the officer, V. testified that his accomplice S. first said during the nightly vehicle inspection, "What, hunting poaching?"
According to the descriptions, the policewoman who was hit was “taken down by the force”.
S. is said to have threatened to shoot V. as well
The 39-year-old main defendant also shot the policewoman's colleague.
V. said he heard two shots and heard a cry of pain.
After the shots, S. ordered him to look for his lost documents and threatened that he would "otherwise put them aside".
According to the dpa news agency, the 33-year-old V. nodded several times when the investigator described his earlier statements.
According to dpa, Andreas S. listened with folded hands or took notes.
When the judge said in a description that S. was very precise, the 39-year-old flared up.
'Mr Chairman, you say I'm quite specific.
What's this about?
It's not about two chewing gums."
Prosecutors accuse the main defendant of murdering a 24-year-old police officer and a 29-year-old police commissioner five months ago to cover up poaching.
The prosecution is largely based on the descriptions of Florian V.
Investigators assume there was an exchange of fire between the police officer and the main suspect.
The police commissioner is said to have shot his service pistol empty – without hitting the attacker.
S. claims to have shot in self-defense
S. had recently charged V. with a read statement in court.
Accordingly, he only shot because he thought he was in a kind of self-defense situation.
It was shot at him first.
S. also said that V. was holding a shotgun and appeared "mentally absent".
Later, V. also shot the injured policewoman lying on the ground in the face.
The presentation runs counter to the charge, according to which S. fired all the shots himself.
V. accuses the public prosecutor's office of attempted frustration.
He is said to have helped cover up the tracks, but not shot.
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