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Crime scene in Kusel: After the police murders, the accused called for further action, according to the public prosecutor
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A trial against a 55-year-old man, who is said to have called for the killing of other officials shortly after the police murders near Kusel at the end of January, began on Friday before the district court in Idar-Oberstein, Rhineland-Palatinate.
The general public prosecutor's office in Koblenz accuses the man, among other things, of publicly inciting criminal offenses.
He is said to have called for comparable crimes in two videos on Facebook.
In one of the videos, he is said to have announced the founding of a "cophunter association" with reference to the killing of the officer near Kusel and called for the hunt for police officers as a "new sport".
In addition, he is said to have offered himself as a decoy for a fee of 500 euros to lure emergency services into a trap.
In custody since February
The prosecution also accuses the man of denigrating the memory of the two police officers killed near Kusel in an e-mail to the police in Idar-Oberstein.
In addition, he has to answer for an alleged falsification of documents because he is said to have used a wrong vaccination card.
The 55-year-old was arrested in early February and has been in custody since then.
He is said to be a supporter of Reich citizen and conspiracy ideologies and, according to the indictment, acted "out of a deep hostile attitude towards the state and its officials".
Two more days of negotiations are planned until the beginning of September.
An earlier statement by investigators said the man claimed his Facebook profiles were "comedy pages" with satire.
He denied the falsification of his vaccination card.
bbr/AFP
