A drug chase of a BMW driver with the police resulted in the death of a 14-year-old.
Now the speeder has to answer in court.
His defense lawyers reveal serious issues.
Munich - His victim had no chance: When
Victor B.'s (35) BMW
met
student Max D. († 14)
, the speedometer showed
124 kilometers per hour
.
The impact: fatal.
And so hard that it
literally tore the student's body apart
.
The boy was thrown 43 meters.
When public prosecutor Nina Prantl presented the
details of the terrible accident of November 15, 2019
on Tuesday
, Victor B. writhed in tears and rolled up his upper body as if he wanted to crawl.
But since Tuesday he has had to face responsibility.
Victor B. is
charged with murder
at the regional court
- as the first speedster in
Munich *
ever.
Speed trial after the death of a student: the accused only confesses to the accident drive
On
Landsberger Strasse
he
fled
from the
police *
under the
influence of drugs
, drove
1.8 kilometers south
as a wrong-way
driver
until he rammed several cars on Fürstenrieder Strasse around 11:20 p.m. and drove into a group of students.
Three people were seriously injured, Max died.
But Victor B. only admits the
accident drive
and has his lawyers Tom Heindl and Daniela Gabler explain: "Our client is not a murderer."
Prosecutor Nina Prantl sees it differently.
Insidious and base motives
were met as characteristics of murder, and there was an intention to
hide
.
Because Victor B. had
sniffed cocaine twice
- before the police wanted to check him because he had turned in the middle of Landsberger Strasse.
"He panicked because he was on
open parole
and was
afraid of being arrested again
," says Gabler.
But when fleeing the speeder, B. accepted that his
“very risky driving style”
could kill
“
an unpredictable number of people”, complains Prantl.
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Has to answer for murder: Victor B. (left) hit several students with his BMW while fleeing the police and killed 14-year-old Max.
© Sigi Jantz
Speeding trial after the death of a student: According to the defense attorney, the defendant drove "often" under the influence of cocaine
This is how the prosecution justifies the murder charge, which B. rejects.
Intentional or negligent homicide?
That is the big question in a process that only knows losers.
One is Victor B., a
warehouse clerk from Bad Heilbrunn
.
On the evening of the crime he wanted to show a friend his
BMW 135 Coupé
and then on
to Krailling to his girlfriend
, said Gabler - when he drove later, B. was “not afraid of causing an accident”.
He said he
had
driven
under the influence of cocaine "several times",
but otherwise never attracted attention in traffic.
Bitter sentences for the
relatives of the killed boy's
who appear as joint plaintiffs.
Bitter also the realization that, according to the indictment, the students
had
crossed the pedestrian path at a red light
.
Despite looking to the side, they could not see the BMW - a
bus blocked their view
, and B. drove the wrong way around on their lane.
According to Heindl, the accident was “tragic”, the
blame
rests on Victor B., he apologizes.
But only through his lawyers.
The
death speedster
himself did
n't say a word, just cried.
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Great mourning: friends and relatives of Max remember the dead student with candles and messages.
© Lino Mirgeler / dpa
Murder charge: that is the legal position
Could Victor B. (35) trust that nobody would be harmed even though he was
driving
124 km / h
in town?
That is the question that clarifies a conditional resolution - and it depends on whether the court
can
convict
the
speeder of murder
or only of negligent homicide.
The latter is imprisonment for a maximum of five years.
The new
Section 315d of the Criminal Code
can also be applied to the judgment
:
It was introduced to punish illegal races, but also applies to particularly
reckless driving
- as with Victor B. in Laim.
If a person dies as a result, the law now allows the driver to
be punished
with
up to ten years in prison
.
On the other hand, murder stands for life.
For Victor B., according to judge Elisabeth Ehrl, the
particular gravity of the guilt
that leads to
preventive detention also comes
into consideration.
In this case, he would not be released after 15 years.
(A. Thieme) * tz.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editorial network
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