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Murder case Walter Lübcke: evidence of right-wing sentiment among gun sellers

2019-09-25T16:55:42.881Z


In the case of the killed Kasseler district president Walter Lübcke there are new references to the third suspect: He is said to have cultivated intensive contacts with the right-wing extremist scene.



Also with the third suspect in the murder case Lübcke the investigators have indications of a right attitude. Elmar J., who is said to have sold the murder suspect Stephan E. the murder weapon, should not have been noticed by politically motivated crimes. This was to be experienced by members of the interior committee of the Bundestag. Even the constitutional protection was the junk dealer, who is said to have acted with weapons, probably not known.

The Kassel government president Walter Lübcke had been shot on 2 June on the terrace of his house. (More about him and the murder case learn here.) The Attorney General is based on a right-wing extremist background. The 45-year-old Stephan E. had initially confessed to the act, but later revoked his confession.

Next to him and Elmar J. sits with Markus H. still a third in custody. The suspicion against Elmar J. and Markus H. is on aiding murder. H. is said to have known and supported the plans of Stefan E.

He was together with Stephan E. at a town hall meeting in Lohfelden in Hesse in October 2015, where a planned initial reception facility for asylum seekers was discussed. At that time, the CDU politician Lübcke responded to aggressive interjections with the sentence: "There must be for values, and who does not represent these values, who can leave this country at any time, if he does not agree, that is the freedom of every German. " There were boos and insults.

The police found a total of 46 firearms among the three suspects. 37 of these weapons are said to have been in the possession of Markus H., according to deputies.

The suspect murder weapon and six other weapons found the investigators for information from the Interior Committee in a depot to which Stephan E. led the investigators. Four more rounds of ammunition and an empty shell were stuck in the barrel of the murder weapon. The earth deposit was well hidden and possibly designed for long-term storage, it was said.

Source: spiegel

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