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Triple murder from Starnberg: Defendant (21) filmed the three victims - he is silent on videos

2021-08-24T08:05:42.921Z


Did three people have to die because a fourth tried to steal weapons? The trial of the Starnberg murder began on Monday with many unanswered questions.


Did three people have to die because a fourth tried to steal weapons?

The trial of the Starnberg murder began on Monday with many unanswered questions.

Munich / Starnberg - At first it looked as if a crazy son had shot his parents and then judged himself - a take-away suicide, as it is called in police jargon.

But in the meantime it seems to have been proven for the public prosecutor that two married couples (60 and 64 years old) and their 23-year-old son were shot by ice-cold murderers in a house in Starnberg in January 2020.

The main culprit is said to be the son's 21-year-old friend, and a 19-year-old friend who chauffeured him to the crime scene is said to have helped him.

Later he and the older man loaded a large number of firearms and weapons from the house into his car.

The prosecution assumes that the two targeted the son's illegal weapons and therefore murdered.

Is that the only conceivable course of the bloody act?

The Starnberg murder mystery: Trial in the Munich Regional Court - eight crime hypotheses are in the room

The defenders of the accused accomplice questioned the version of the offense at the start of the trial in the Munich II district court.

Usually the pleadings come at the very end of criminal proceedings.

On Monday, however, the three defenders of the accomplice got on with it.

“Opening statement” is what they called their preliminary legal assessment.

The presiding judge Regina Holstein warned them not to plead early.

But that didn't prevent her from putting eight factual hypotheses into the room.

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Trial of the triple murder in Starnberg: A 21-year-old and a 19-year-old are said to have shot their friend and his parents.

© dpa / Sven Hoppe

One version says that the son killed the family and himself and the main defendant happened to pass by.

He had the house security code.

Or maybe revenge was an option, or even contract killing?

According to the defense, there were indications that the 21-year-old - a gun fanatic like the friend who was killed and trained as a gunsmith - sold his arsenal on the Darknet and may have come across false friends in the process.

Triple murder in Starnberg: defendant is silent on videos - reports of bullying in school

However, two short cell phone videos of 45 and ten seconds incriminated the main defendant heavily.

It shows a walk through the house with comments from the 21-year-old.

You can see the three corpses and the wounded family dog.

In the trial, the main defendant had agreed to provide information on the curriculum vitae.

He said nothing about the videos.

He presented himself as a victim. In 2013 he came to Bavaria.

He moved to Pöcking with his mother and attended secondary school in Tutzing.

Allegedly, he was heavily bullied because of his poor living conditions.

"Once they tied me to a climbing frame with cable ties and pelted me with stones," he recalled.

He reported alcohol and drug problems.

But he was silent about the allegations.

Starnberg triple murder in court: multitude of evidence and circumstantial evidence - verdict in January?

The 19-year-old, whose actual involvement the lawyers question, initially did not want to say anything. A defense attorney denied complicity. “Driving alone is not complicity,” she said. Every taxi driver has to be careful about that. Anything would be done to get an acquittal.

Public prosecutor Stefan Kreutzer came to a different conclusion. The main hearing will convict the accused on the basis of a large number of evidence and circumstantial evidence. Because apparently the investigators had also found communication between the 21-year-old and his specialist on the cell phone during the crime. These WhatsApp chats could be interpreted in all directions, said the 19-year-old's defenders. They criticized that the alleged confession of the 21-year-old was not recorded in images and sound. Instead, it was passed on by a police officer who had heard "It was me" from the defendant in the cell. "Disregarding these principles is bold," said one of the lawyers. The youth chamber has scheduled 54 trial days. The verdict is due to fall in January.

(Angela Walser)

List of rubric lists: © dpa / Sven Hoppe

Source: merkur

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