Four young people are charged in the process of the night of the riot in Starnberg.
In July 2019, they had a fight with the officers.
Now they show remorse - but also express criticism.
In July 2019, some young people in Starnberg messed with police officers.
They are also said to have used violence against the officials
In the process, they now show remorse - but also express criticism.
Starnberg
- One last hug with the mother, one last pat from the father.
Then it goes to session room 125 of the
Starnberg District Court
.
The
five defendants
sit one
behind the other on their chairs, separated from their lawyers by Plexiglas panes to protect them from spitting.
The legal processing of the
night of
the
riot in front of the Starnberg police station
on July 25, 2019 can begin.
Night of riot in Starnberg: Five young defendants from the district
Four young people are accused: a 16-year-old from
Feldafing,
a 17-year-old from
Pöcking
and a 16-year-old from
Herrsching
, all of whom are still going to school, as well as a 17-year-old from
Seefeld
who recently started an apprenticeship.
There is also
an adolescent,
a 20-year-old from
Berg
.
He is also currently completing vocational training.
Not all are innocent.
The Feldafinger example, must also due to
theft
of a bus and
fare evasion
answer - the Herrschinger because he stole a bicycle, a classmate 70 euro steel and with a Spezl illegally spent a night at Starnberger Sea resort.
All of them have German citizenship, one also has Nigerian citizenship.
And everyone was there when a private party in front of the
Starnberg grammar school
over a year
ago
- regardless of the school's summer party - went completely out of hand.
Trigger for the night of the riot in Starnberg: Young people provoke security service
The beginnings of this evening, which is memorable in every respect, are largely indisputable.
The
Feldafinger
spoke to the
security forces
assigned
by the
high school
and asked if they had
drugs
.
“Up to then everything was fine,” reports a
security employee
(29) on the witness stand.
He had expelled him four or five times, but the
youngster
kept coming back.
The 29-year-old walked the few meters to the
police station
to end the situation.
A little later he came back with two officers.
“We thought it wasn't a big deal,” says the then service group leader (32).
The Feldafinger, however, was extremely
uncooperative.
He refused to give his personal details and did not follow the dismissal from the police
.
“He gesticulated wildly and expansively and made fun of us,” reports the second officer (27).
The night of the riot in Starnberg escalates: Young people criticize the police operation
The police then took him into
custody
and tried to take him to the police station.
Within a short time, a group of young people rioted around the police.
“In a sense, we were on stage,” says the service group leader.
Because the field finger continued to resist, the officers brought him to the ground to restrain him.
What happened in the next few minutes
can be seen
on
shaky cell phone videos
that judge Ralf Jehle plays - and it leaves
room for interpretation.
For example, when asked whether the accused
Herrschinger started
a targeted kick in the direction of an officer whom a
security
guard could still fend off.
Or whether the accused Berger tried to beat the police officers.
As a result, the police managed
to bring Feldafinger to the guard
with the
security
guard, but other
youths
kicked the door and smashed one of the guard's windows.
How exactly it continued in the inspection rooms has not yet been conclusively clarified.
Police operation in Starnberg: Official thought of the use of firearms
Judge Jehle always wants to know how the
security forces
and the police felt during the operation.
“I was
n't afraid,”
says a security man (29) who, according to his own statements, is used to other things from Oktoberfest operations.
The 32-year-old policeman expresses himself completely differently.
“Despite my twelve years of service experience, I
felt very uncomfortable,
” he says, speaking of “a life-threatening situation” in which he and his colleague would have found themselves “alone among a hundred
angry young people”
.
“In retrospect, I even
thought about
using a
firearm,
” he says.
"You have already seen a lot, but not something like that," says a colleague (26).
He describes how young people even tried to use a robber ladder to get over the wall into the courtyard of the
police station
.
“
Weapons
and
ammunition are
stored
at the
office
,
” he emphasizes.
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Photos from the deployment at the night of the riot in Starnberg in July 2019.
© Michael Stuerzer
Riots in front of the Starnberg police station: young people partly repentant
With the Feldafinger, the Herrschinger and the Seefeld girl, three young people made
partial confessions
yesterday
and wrestled with
apologies
to the police officers.
“I don't know myself,” says Feldafinger when the judge asked what drove him - especially since he had a court appointment that morning on the same day.
"It was an
interplay of alcohol and youthful recklessness
." He had already met with his specialist from Herrsching that afternoon at the lake and
drank beer.
It was never his intention
to let
the
situation escalate like
this.
"I am shocked myself." However, he also expresses
criticism of the police officers' actions
.
"From my point of view, the police used excessive force." He was
afraid
when he was brought to the ground.
The prosecutor does not accept that.
He
“massively provoked”
the officials
, she says.
"There is no trace of fear."
“Just because he's black” - young people stick to severe criticism of Starnberg officials
The trainee from Seefeld shows
remorse
in court
.
She admits that she
hit
the
security guards
and later tried to forcibly prevent the police station door from closing.
“I only noticed everything that someone was arrested
just because he was black,
” she says.
Out of emotion, she went to the police station with other young people.
“I deeply regret it,” she says.
“I'm shocked at myself and can't really explain it.” Again and again she
bows
her head when the videos clearly show how she
insults
the
police
.
"That was an incredibly big mistake on my part."
After the night of the riot in Starnberg: Spiderman quote as criticism of police officers
Herrschinger also comments on the matter, but repeatedly
asserts gaps in his
memory
that he attributes to alcohol consumption.
That day he drank a tetrapak of vodka-passion fruit and beer with Feldafinger, he says.
He thinks the use against his friend is excessive.
The whole action of the young people was a mistake.
"If we hadn't done anything and
just filmed him being abused,
we might have drawn attention to it," he says.
“As it is, I behaved wrongly and absolutely not justifiable.
We got it into our heads that we have to revolt. "
It was also stupid to
break the police station window
.
He
denies
that he deliberately
wanted to kick
a police officer in
the head
.
"I definitely didn't want to hurt anyone," he says.
The prosecutor wants to know what his relationship with the police is like.
"I have to quote Spiderman,"
says the 16-year-old, "great power leads to great responsibility." Some officials got it wrong.
The process will continue on Friday.