The ex-prisoner Jens Soering (55), who was convicted of double homicide in the USA, looks forward to his life quite fearlessly.
“I'm almost no longer afraid of anything,” he said on Thursday in Frankfurt on the ARD book fair stage.
"I am one of the very few people who can say: The worst is behind me."
Frankfurt / Main - Soering was imprisoned in the US for 33 years.
The German diplomat's son had been sentenced to twice life imprisonment for the murder of the parents of his then girlfriend Elizabeth Haysom.
He initially confessed to the 1985 murders, but later revoked the confession.
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Life in prison is a permanent state of alarm.
You shouldn't show any feelings, you have to push the cross through and you shouldn't look anxiously.
"Every sign of weakness leads to an attack," said Soering.
"The most important thing within the prison hierarchy is that other people don't see you as the victim."
In November 2019, the responsible US body decided to release Soering on parole and deport him.
He was not pardoned.
Soering still maintains his innocence to this day.
He is never allowed to enter the USA again.
“I don't want to forget the past, I don't want to run away from it.
I can't undo it anyway, ”said the 55-year-old.
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