Further charges against Thomas Drach: attack in Limburg

The list of charges against Thomas Drach is getting longer.

In addition to three money transporter robberies in Cologne and Frankfurt, the former Reemtsma kidnapper is said to be responsible for another robbery.

Cologne - The former Reemtsma kidnapper Thomas Drach has now also been charged with a robbery in Hesse.

The now 60-year-old is said to have threatened an employee of a security company with an AK-47 assault rifle in a supermarket parking lot in Limburg on September 10, 2018 and stole a suitcase containing 89,850 euros, the Cologne Regional Court announced on Tuesday.

According to the indictment, he also took the employee's revolver with him.

An accomplice drove him away in a getaway vehicle with a fake license plate.

Then the two perpetrators set the car on fire.

Drach and his Dutch accomplice are accused of particularly serious robbery and arson, a violation of the War Weapons Control Act and the Weapons Act, and forgery of documents.

Drach has already been charged with three attacks on money transporters in Cologne and Frankfurt / Main.

The charges include attempted murder because he shot the messenger in the attack in Frankfurt and approved his death.

The 52-year-old Dutchman is also said to have helped him with the raids in Cologne and Frankfurt.

In May Drach was extradited from the Netherlands to Germany after being arrested in an Amsterdam apartment in February.

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The trial of Drach and his accomplices could begin early next year, a court spokesman said.

The prerequisite for this is that the charges are admitted by the court.

The procedure is likely to be a lengthy circumstantial process.

Drach's defense attorney said in September: "The evidence is extremely poor and most of the allegations are speculative."

In 1996, Drach and accomplice kidnapped Philipp Reemtsma, the heirs of the Hamburg tobacco dynasty.

For this he was sentenced to fourteen and a half years in prison.

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